'It never gets better'

Having a job is tough for everybody, I see it in friends and housemates. It is rarely fair, under the current economic umbrella we are being asked to do more on less and I'm sure it stresses everyone out. It is no different for me, but I crave work. It keeps me out of trouble, gives me structure and support, even if the additional support is not provided. It keeps me motivated, and gets me out into the world.

I have been jobless in the past and it has been awful. Days in bed sound great until you are doing them, day in and day out. Then it becomes a mind killer. Aspys often have a patchwork of work history, three weeks here, four months there, with no real common thread or reason behind them. I can guess why, but without having read too much into it in research or having experienced it too much I cannot talk beyond personal experience.

Boy do I have personal experience.

Going back right to my employment history at 16. Ok so I went to school, held summer jobs, but most of my jobs ended after a few months, for various reasons.

I don't want this to be a work blog, what I do, how I do it, with whom and who for, I want this to be an experience job, my road. Equally, work will feature in this blog because, hilariously, it is where I get the most of my human interaction. That is a fact I only realised while thinking about blog posts, what I can post about and what is currently effecting me. So the blog is already helping me?

The title of this post is a comment from a health care professional, and it struck me at the time as I will always have to fight my corner but on reflection may mean that Aspergers never has a 'cure'. It was a farewell comment after a discussion of my last two years, the road I've traveled up until now, the problems and discrimination and lack of understanding I have come up against and how those attitudes have changed with information and education.

Here's hoping things do get better, even if it is not my condition.