Great video, and you’ve made so many good points and given really good advice 🙂 Love your positivity too! I think we suffer because society is too rigid and inflexible, and likes to label people so much, even now, and pigeonhole people who have neurodivergent diagnoses 😕 I don’t know about doing this with the intention of making it a career from day 1, because it’s important to do it on your own terms and not put pressure on ourselves to be successful or popular - but I think that being a RUclipsr is a really good idea as a hobby for someone who’s neurodivergent TBH. You get to be expressive/creative/productive, you get to educate people at the same time, it can be as flexible and random or as structured as you want it to be, and if it takes off and becomes really successful it could actually become a career in its own right 🙂 I’ve discovered almost by accident, since Covid began and we first went into lockdown, how fun YouTubing can be, and how great it is to discover awesome channels on here like yours 🙌 Excellent video Molly! 👏
I think if a person has ASD more than traits combined with ADHD, it can be very hard to get meaningful employment. A lot of factors involved , late diagnoses, degree/degrees . Very few employers make accommodations, it is very competitive even before Covid, financial crisis , austerity , Brexit , financial crisis , changing world. With jobs I avoid manual work , I get anxiety, can’t remember instructions easily targets , pressure , commuting , punctuality etc . I get tired physically.
Even the “perfect” field depends on the company/organization. My career field was a disaster and it took ten years and four jobs for me to realize it. I have finally found a career that accepts me for who I am. I now work with developmentally disabled adults, mostly with autism, that I am able to use my own ADHD experiences/coping skills in order to help others succeed. Don’t give up.
Getting a job that allows you to find your own way is really cool. I've ended up working in Finance, and I'm based at home, doing tasks which I've understood and simplified to the extent that the way I complete them actually make very pleasing patterns for me. But the jump is going from "well, there's no way I can do this but I'll try" to "I know this inside out". The problem is not be able to imagine yourself in any role... I've been so lucky. (I am 49 and have a degree by the way!)
Engineering has a fairly high rate of neurodivergent staff. Sadly I've found that the modern engineering office often provides a very poor sensory environment. I am in the process of moving jobs at the moment and feel apprehensive about the office environment as it has mandated 2 days in the office and my noise sensitivity seems to have got worse since a period of burnout last year.
I noticed I had meltdowns after 3 months on the jobs I had where there was small talk all day and with the jobs that this was not required, I lasted over a year and quit for other reasons.
Great video, and you’ve made so many good points and given really good advice 🙂 Love your positivity too!
I think we suffer because society is too rigid and inflexible, and likes to label people so much, even now, and pigeonhole people who have neurodivergent diagnoses 😕
I don’t know about doing this with the intention of making it a career from day 1, because it’s important to do it on your own terms and not put pressure on ourselves to be successful or popular - but I think that being a RUclipsr is a really good idea as a hobby for someone who’s neurodivergent TBH. You get to be expressive/creative/productive, you get to educate people at the same time, it can be as flexible and random or as structured as you want it to be, and if it takes off and becomes really successful it could actually become a career in its own right 🙂 I’ve discovered almost by accident, since Covid began and we first went into lockdown, how fun YouTubing can be, and how great it is to discover awesome channels on here like yours 🙌
Excellent video Molly! 👏
I think if a person has ASD more than traits combined with ADHD, it can be very hard to get meaningful employment.
A lot of factors involved , late diagnoses, degree/degrees .
Very few employers make accommodations, it is very competitive even before Covid, financial crisis , austerity , Brexit , financial crisis , changing world.
With jobs I avoid manual work , I get anxiety, can’t remember instructions easily targets , pressure , commuting , punctuality etc .
I get tired physically.
Even the “perfect” field depends on the company/organization. My career field was a disaster and it took ten years and four jobs for me to realize it. I have finally found a career that accepts me for who I am. I now work with developmentally disabled adults, mostly with autism, that I am able to use my own ADHD experiences/coping skills in order to help others succeed. Don’t give up.
Getting a job that allows you to find your own way is really cool.
I've ended up working in Finance, and I'm based at home, doing tasks which I've understood and simplified to the extent that the way I complete them actually make very pleasing patterns for me.
But the jump is going from "well, there's no way I can do this but I'll try" to "I know this inside out".
The problem is not be able to imagine yourself in any role... I've been so lucky.
(I am 49 and have a degree by the way!)
Engineering has a fairly high rate of neurodivergent staff. Sadly I've found that the modern engineering office often provides a very poor sensory environment. I am in the process of moving jobs at the moment and feel apprehensive about the office environment as it has mandated 2 days in the office and my noise sensitivity seems to have got worse since a period of burnout last year.
Being self employed is definitely a huge blessing for myself with ADHD 👍
I noticed I had meltdowns after 3 months on the jobs I had where there was small talk all day and with the jobs that this was not required, I lasted over a year and quit for other reasons.
Everyone is an individual, something they love , most likely self - employed.