Work for an autistic adult

[inwest]

My son is 28 years old and would like to find some work. This seems to be impossible.

Does anyone know of organisations that will employ and support someone who is disabled but capable giving some understanding and patience.

[jasmineflower]

where do you live inwest?

[FMB60]

We didn't get support from any agencies, but my son did manage to get work as a kitchen porter through searches on Internet job sites. Could be worth a try. More able people see it as a short term job, which I think gave my son a bit of an advantage. I wish you all the best, so important to have something to do.

[ulrichburke]

Dear Inwest.

Wish I could magically help you but I CAN sympathise. I'm 55 now and I've been failing to even get voluntary work most of my adult life. It's basically apartheid. Neurotypicals want to believe They're the Top Dogs, We're Nothing - so they try to make it so by building the world utterly in t heir own image and giving us as few shots as possible. Ever seen a disabled guy working in a charity shop for that disability? Nope - me neither - that includes me - I've tried every one in at least a 30 mile radius and not got a sniff.

They put us in ghettos - Group Homes, same thing, think about it! - keep us off neurotypical public transport - single-decker (or lower deck of a double-decker) bus, 40 seats. 2 spaces for wheelchairs, 38(!) for neurotypicals. Now imagine ALL those seats could fold up - you could get 40 WHEELCHAIRS into a single-decker bus! So, just like in South Africa, we're kept out of neurotypical ('white folk') transport, as we're doped up to the eyeballs in group homes they don't have to look at us, as they keep the glass ceiling going - neurotypicals above, us lot below, never the gap shall be crossed - they can keep the fiction of our 'uselessness' alive.

I think they're running scared of discovering they might actually not be the Lords of Creation, they only seem to be because they design everything so it suits them and not us. Then of course they have to use things for us and can say that shows they have to be in control, as we couldn't use their stuff for ourselves!

I'm still applying for everything in sight and getting precisely nowhere. Thought I had a hit recently with a bunch called Chalk Farm in Eastbourne, got to go along there, they showed me all they could offer - then told me I had to pay THEM £61 PER DAY to be allowed to work there. On top of paying extra for lunch and a cup of tea. On top of buying my uniform.

Needless to say, I declined!

Good luck!

Yours respectfully

Chris.

[supermum1997]

Have you tried Eat that Frog a national charity that helps disabled people find paid work