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Autistic Person unemployment and nasty comments
Autism Support / by impartialNorth8471
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 April 5th, 2025
...See more I've been unemployed for 18 months now, and I am embarrassed and I ashamed of it. I am disabled with autism and dyspraxia. I have also suffer from anxiety and depression. I used to volunteer at my local library one day a week, assisting the elderly with the computers. I also used to volunteer in the past at a charity shop, but gave that up to stress. I gave the library up also to burnout, and stress, and serious mental health issues. I used to work as an IT apprentice and got made redundant a few years back, through no fault of my own, was down to not renewing the contract. I got the highest grade out of my entire group with a Distinction*. I had to deal with grief, stress, depression, anxiety and covid throughout my apprenticeship. But I have lost all of my confidence now when I lost my job. It the people online saying things like all people on benefits are lazy and stupid, they are ***, and they should starve and do without. I receive universal credit and PIP. IPES employment program was horrible, the key workers kept changing and one of them had a go at me when I was struggling. I feel like a failure because of these online comments, I am embarrassed to be walking my local community, I have no confidence at the moment, these comments are nasty and awful, I want to go back to work, I am scared of getting and terrified of going back into the workplace, because of past experiences and discrimination I have had due to my disability. it's also a case of finding the right job for me, as i can't be thrown into any job due to my limitations. I am trying my best, but I keep breaking down in tears and getting severly depressed. I am taking medication and getting counselling and trying to find help with myself. But I just get frustrated, I don't trust many people because of bad experiences in the past and these awful comments about benefits and disabled people make me a whole lot worse Am I in the wrong? Am I a crybaby? Am I lazy, because i am not in work.. Please don't judge. It's difficult for me.
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