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Post by alien on Mar 29, 2016 6:45:51 GMT
Hi frameofmind - I'be all I need for this piece now, but will take a look at your video soon. Depending on the response to the article once it's published,I might also look to do a follow up. Will post a link here once it's up.
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Post by alien on Mar 23, 2016 14:15:09 GMT
Thanks, jonbob – I've got a number of good responses for this, but not from any photographers – are you a professional photographer, ie for advertising or fashion, etc, as that's the focus of the feature?
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Post by alien on Mar 23, 2016 14:13:35 GMT
Interesting that so many people here seem to enjoy reading and watching films – common/mainstream sentiment seems to be those with ADHD wouldn't focus long enough to do so.
I'm not sure about the dissociative state thing – sometimes a lot more time can pass than I think has, but I think being absorbed in play is not necessarily a bad thing.
I've definitely witnessed my daughter, who's autistic, become absorbed in both her own world and fictional worlds, which are very real to her.
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Post by alien on Mar 23, 2016 14:07:05 GMT
Interesting to hear that it sounds like there are quite a few competent drivers out there. The fact that I have no points on my licence seemed one of the key determining factors in walking out of my assessment without an official diagnosis. I was rather exhausted by the time that question came up, but had I had a bit more wherewithal about me I might have mentioned that I find driving really quite stressful, I regularly prang my car and have had some skin-of-the-teeth near misses that have all been down to my lack of general awareness. Instead I said I thought it (the no points) was down to the fact that I overcompensate and am generally extra cautious when driving.
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Post by alien on Mar 22, 2016 11:41:15 GMT
Thanks.
I was just letting off some steam. I'm so sick of application forms – mainly looking for charity or government work, which come in stacks rather than sheaths of paperwork and formal interview processes. I'll get there.
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Post by alien on Mar 19, 2016 8:31:01 GMT
Best of luck with it. It all sounds terribly drawn out.
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 15:15:18 GMT
I post this here of course after failing for the third day in a row to complete a particular job application.
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:40:22 GMT
Apologies if a thread like this has already been posted somewhere but…
I got made redundant for the second time in under five years last autumn and have been looking for a permanent job since. I know it's easy to over-analyse stuff when you going through the processs of trying to find work/pressure of not having reliable income, etc, but I realised that, apart from my first few jobs (where it was a case of nod, smile and be enthusiastic to land the roles) I've had a rather convoluted means of securing my other roles.
This time around I've also been going for public sector or charity jobs, all of which come with lengthy box-filling application forms and competency-based interview questions. None of these are very friendly to my natural way of approaching an interview, which is to be informal and chatty, and I keep finding myself going off on tangents and also being overly conscious of finding examples of what an interviewer wants to hear for their blank boxes, so more less reserved personality doesn't come through at all and… GAH! really.
Rant over. Phew, I've been wanting to do that for a while.
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:28:16 GMT
Did you have the one with the shapes and colours? So what happens next for you? More assessment dates?
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:26:54 GMT
I did, yes. Questionnaires up front. I was on my own (with three psychiatrists). It was NHS. It was regular questionnaire, plus long interview and the computer thing. Took about three hours all in. I walked away without a medical diagnosis, although I scored extremely highly on inattentiveness. I had sent a letter up front stating that I wasn't there for medication, so that might have been part of the reason. They also put a lot of my heightened symptoms down to life events, Mostly it seemed to me though that they made their decision on the fact that I have no points on my driving licence and never got in trouble at school. And I'm not particularly impulsive or physically hyperactive. Blah blah blah. : )
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:11:54 GMT
merrial – My assessors weren't nearly so strict. I had about five breaks. I built the whole thing up a bit much in my head, i think. But it was such a long wait to get to the day itself.
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:10:22 GMT
Hi mypineappledream. I did one of these a few months ago when I had my assessment. I was a bit shocked when they told me it was going to be 25 minutes long, but it went weirdly quickly. I scored terribly (?), and was quite anxious, so was much more physically hyperactive than usual (which I'm not ordinarily, just a bit fidgety.) Why do you ask? Have you just had one, or coming up to having one?
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:04:56 GMT
Hi everyone.
I know this is a bit of an ask, but if anyone on here works in the creative industries (especially within design or advertising) I'm interested in speaking with you – I'm writing a feature for a magazine that'll be familiar with you if you're in those industries on creativity and neurodiversity. I can happily keep your confidence, but be great to get some voices of people confident enough to 'out' themselves.
Thanks in advance (and anticipation)!
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Post by alien on Jan 7, 2016 21:14:41 GMT
Hi Mary, I'm sorry to hear about the challenges you've been having.
I don't want to hijack your thread, but in case it's of any help (and to help clarify), PDA-related aggression is fight-or-flight anxiety-based stuff, and comes about due to panic attacks (or 'meltdowns' as some refer to them), and is a blanket-response when anxiety is high, rather than solely towards authority. The more generalised anxiety is also compounded by demands, so the more demands placed upon a person with PDA (as simple as 'would you mind passing me some water'), the more the anxiety 'bucket' gets filled up. The panic attacks happen when this overspills. (@tesseract, it was me that originally mentioned it to you, I think, as my daughter has a PDA diagnosis and some of her behaviour seemed to to chime with what you were describing).
PDA isn't a separate condition to autism, but, like Aspergers, is a way of describing a particular presentation of it. Hope that makes sense and is useful. None of the above is to say that PDA can't be comorbid with ADHD, as it generally seems to be, from what I've experienced, or ODD for that matter.
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