No more apologies - for Meltdown behaviour.
I am 52 years old and 2 years ago, I was diagnosed Autistic. I've learnt a lot about myself during the past two years and about ASD in general. One thing I have come to recognise is when I am having an Autistic meltdown. I am currently waiting for a CT scan as, like many other Autistic folk, I suffer with other medical issues. Asthma and Eczema as a child, Urticaria and allergies. The most recent is more serious heart pains though, especially when highly stressed or exercising. Despite this, I am still doing my best to keep a full time job down. An office job with over 45 hours a week and more every third week, when we have to work on Saturday, yes, six day weeks do suck. For the most part, we cope well with the workload. There are three of us doing pretty much the same job, although we all each specialise in one particular aspect. But generally, the workload is easily manageable as we can share it out. Manageable that is, until one of us is on holiday. These past 2 we...