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Joining this group, reading other's posts, identifying with them plus writing my own posts has brought me closer to understanding my own autism and myself. I hope this website can do the same for everyone else here. Thank you AC members, moderators and Administrators.
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Earlier this week marked World Autism Awareness Day. The Netherlands took it a step further and marked it ?autismweek?. There were all kinds of events going on related to the spectrum all throughout the country. The company a social worker I keep in touch with works for had such an event running...
I'd love to have a more Aspie-friendly job. I know it's not an Aspie thing to envy those who get to do something they love for a living, but I definitely feel that envy when I hear about certain other jobs. I think back on the alternate career paths I wanted to explore, but decided against them...
My girlfriend was over during the weekend and compared to other people that are in a committed relationship (at least from what I've gathered over time), we don't deal in a lot of "romantic" time as such. Quite often we both discuss laws, rulings and the entire political agenda more than...
I listened to it over radio. It may be harder in Singapore than in Britain to get employment support for learning disabilities (where 15% of people with learning disabilities are employed, already at one of the highest levels of employment in the world), but I think Singapore and other Asian...
My observations are: If you are really rational, work, work in any area, unless you're competent in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Speaking of which, who offers the best grounding in STEM courses? I believe the ITE does. It makes everything so simple, we just work on...
The thought of social workers or psychologists needing to get a master's degree, and this is the norm for Singapore... It's a boiling feeling of resentment.
If we look at Ireland, this academic requirements kind of pisses me off. We invest in so much education to yield so much stress, even...
I got out of conscription because of a combination of depression and autism, and both me and my father decided not to appeal this decision. Those with autism are eligible to serve as a clerk. I wanted to be a clerk, however, I don't think I can be of much use to the army or police.
I deny...
As Harvard, MIT and Stanford, three of the best universities in the world as ranked in US News, begin to offer online courses, as do Yale University and University of California-Berkeley, I hear murmurings of 'the days of the brick and mortar university is over'.
Also, using those tools...
From what I read on Daft's book New Era of Management, awareness of certain biases can help managers make more enlightened choices:
1. First impressions. They could make a disproportionate emphasis on initial comments or incomplete data to use as anchors in decision making. I think I am prone...
My Singaporean friend, Tiger, said that he doesn't like Singapore expanding the university places to 40% of Singapore's cohort. He wishes my country cap University places because University is over-valued, and does not prepare graduates with a job in the relevant area.
I agree with him...
I posed this question, Should Singapore consider a 12/13-year compulsory education, where every Singaporean pays no fees for ITE, Polytechnics and JCs?
The Singapore education system is divided into primary schools, secondary schools (middle schools), junior colleges (preparatory high...
I am getting an accounting degree, I foresee myself to work as an accountant, and I may be forced to do a full-time job in that area, but I really dislike it. Others see me as a success. I call it a failure, because look, I got to confess, being an unemployed bus fan collecting bus information...
Written by my friend, Harry, to me. Reposted with permission.
I had talked to my parents pertaining further education but it seems that It is not a good move on my side and theirs. This is because my father has no insufficient ready cash on hand so he has to dig out his CPF to fund my...
I read about Spinning Compass's thoughts on the 'Feminism Mystique', and thought to myself,
So, in my society, the NTs, those without autism and all those special needs like dyslexia, they are encouraged to go on to college and get the highest degrees they get.
For now, the trend is that...
I feel thankful that concrete steps have been done to improve the employment situation in people with ASDs/autism, especially through E2C, the employment and employability centre for people with autism. I think, though, they lead to careers in the private sector, with MNCs/large multinational...
It?s been a while since I blogged here... relatively speaking.
Recently I touched about a subject here and there about my personal situation. I?m well aware that this situation will probably not count for the majority of the users here, since it deals with Dutch regulations and laws and not...
An issue I face in Pathlight School is the issue of names.
I don't like to be called by my real name. When people do a Google search on my name, we get a statement stating I have Autism. My parents are not really willing to expose my conditions to the world. I know the limits autism pose on...
I fell out with Megatron, my arch-rival. He says when one is not great, he cannot bring acceptance for his being as a person. He doesn't accept substandard work, even if they're the best the person can give.
Doesn't he know that some people are just struggling to survive? Try being unemployed...
The world seems to need division of labour and specialisation, though they are incomplete, without a basic core of values to guide them along, in order to survive.
DPM Tharman commented on a speech that in Singapore and in many industrialized countries, a general degree is ''less highly...