Yes and it allows people such as myself, low income earners, disability, to not have to pay for an ambulance (or an annual membership) if needed. ❤️ I think it’s a pretty decent system especially compared to others.

Australia. A broken arm no fee. General check up - no fee.

Yep. Happened with bluesky. It was pretty decent and wasn’t getting any troll crap that was rampant on Twitter. Then there was some controversy on Twitter and Blue sky quickly went up in its new members and…yep, it just got all trolly and agro 🙄

Personally I just miss when we had individual sites for a topic like when I was a teenager. Grew up on forums for a certain artist and another different site for specific sports teams, books. Way less likely to get idiots if you actually have to actively find the specific website for an artist you hate.

I think they also use one that’s a cube drawing test. I actually did it on a screener test for something else but I think the use it for dementia testing too - if lines are missing and the edges don’t test it can indicate some visual/spatial decline I believe.

Thank you! Animal pictures always help ❤️ what is 😺 name?

Haha thank you, I did have ice cream. And an apple. Balance enough 🤷‍♀️

Haha yeah my email at work we can put a flag next to it and set a date and it reminds you to follow up on it in 24 hours, a week, whatever you set it to!

Yep and if I can’t action it immediately (need others input or something) I flag it because otherwise it just… doesn’t exist anymore lol.

Same. If I’m in a slump/depression I can let it crawl up to a few texts/emails but not to those kinds of numbers nope.

Personal email is a joke though because so much junk.

Hate calling in sick on a Monday but I am struggling mentally so trying not to beat myself up about it. Need to dive my head into a good book and eat something healthy and get through another day 📚 🍎 💪

✋ autistic (woman) here and yes, this is the exact kind of thing I would have picked up on if I watched the sopranos. I watch Gilmore girls but not Sopranos. This would have my mind spinning out 😂

Sooo at my workplace, disability, they like to keep floor workers low, the scum we are, and give us no training or time to learn anything about the background processes - despite several of us asking for years.

Just recently they put out an internal job call to us all that was basically all the shit we’ve been asking to learn but “must have at least 5 years experience with this program and that program”. Oh you mean the shit you’ve refused to let us stay on shift an extra hour to actually have non-client time to learn because “it’s not in the budget”? Well done management.

Disability care: there are 10 people here we care for, just like get to know them I guess and if you have any questions…umm… I’m not sure who you ask but I’ll ask my manager to ask their manager and maybe get back to you if you ask a dozen times.

I’m very lucky to work in a pretty good team now who are trying to rebuild a previously not great team and system but some are truly terrible. And management have no idea what their doing. Like as we try to build systems that should already absolutely exist (inductions, complaint systems, incident reporting, basic shit) and ask management they are scrambling for answers. Yet we have all the signs “encouraging” clients to make complaints because they legally have to display them 🤦‍♀️

Yep. I think more people need to be able to say/think “actually I don’t know enough on this particular issue” and either choose to step back or to actively learn, ask good faith questions and actually start to have an understanding before they start to form opinions.

Nobody knows enough about everything to have an opinion and it’s actually okay not to have an opinion or to be curious before forming and sharing one!

Yeah I would assume it’s definitely role-dependent right? Like speciality roles, higher paying roles I understand there’s always going to be a bit of prestige around that stuff but I guess I am more of an average Joe (Jane? Is that a saying, average Jane lol) 😅

See, I reckon we’ve become more degree focused here over the years which I don’t actually think is a good thing. My dad came from England (to Australia) with not even finishing high school and managed to climb up the corporate ladder without ever having to go to university. He was very good at his job, headhunted regularly and retired 5 years ago and still gets offers on contracts because he’s obviously held in high regard.

I think it’s a mistake to automatically require a degree for jobs. Not a dig at you personally, I understand that’s how the system has probably worked there for a long time and as I said it’s come in here too. I just don’t agree with that everyone needs a degree to do certain jobs. Some people do seem to have a natural infinity towards certain things and can excel without the study so I think it’s a flawed model to push everyone to the same requirements.

You Aussie? Haha yeah even as I was typing it I knew it would be a sweeping generalisation because ofc it depends on the field someone is going into and the end goal.

I can’t say I know about how higher corporate positions work these days other than I know we put more emphasis on education now so I take what you’re saying on board. I know my dad started here in the 80s, no education past dropping out in the equivalent of year 10 (in England) and by the 90s was climbing the corporate ladder and ended up quite high (I believe he did a couple of short courses along the way but no diploma or degrees).

He retired a few years ago and yes, definitely spoke about it becoming more focused on what degrees newcomers had. He did also speak to there being the private school boys connections (in his generation too) so yes, all that stuff does exist. Perhaps I have wishful thinking that we’re less focused on that in America.

I’m more lower class than my dad lol, so in my line of work and the people around me - which in fairness tends to be in the caregiving, healthcare industries and much smaller corporations - I’ve not heard people talk about where they went to school or what they’re ENTER/ATAR, etc score was or anything. But yes, vastly different experience than climbing the corporate ladder!

Curious what your experience has been if you’ve seen/heard/experienced how it looks in different industries? Easy to get caught in your own little bubble so I’m always interested in others experiences!

Me raving about why people ask you how are if they don’t want an answer 🙃

Also if I have a cake, I’m going to eat it too. If I can’t have my cake AND eat it too I don’t want a damn cake! 🎂 I always just think of a kid sadly watching their cake knowing they’re not allowed to eat it 😭😭😭😅

People also tend not to be very observant or, especially with parents, they have thrown their head in the sand. “No no you are/were a totally normal child”.

That was my parents. “Weird” or “not normal” was bad so the reassurance was always that I was normal. Meanwhile my sister: yeah but remember how she used to watch that one DVD every single day for a year? And she read the same 5 books over and over while she ate the same breakfast every day even when you bought new books? And how you had to stock pile that cereal because if there wasn’t any, she wouldn’t eat anything because that cereal was breakfast and afternoon tea and sometimes dinner." 😂

My assessment involved a couple of hours of talking to my folks and my dad finally reading the end report just said “how did we miss this” 😢

Haha I did a whole bunch of them in the waiting room before going in and I was getting so frustrated. But yes obviously the reason it’s needed to have not only these kinds of tests as the assessment but to only make up a small part.

Yes and I think non autistic/ADHD people do that like unconsciously, right? Fill in the context?

Whereas a huge part of autism for a lot of us IS “caring about the details” very consciously and needing those details explicitly stated to understand what I think others just understand?