Unemployed and on the autistic spectrum?
OK, are you an unemployed adult on the autism spectrum? If you are and have put up a listing on the free self employment website http://www.auties.org would you also like to raise public awareness of the kind of work you are interested in getting?
This blog gets thousands of visitors each month and for a limited time I’m offering to interview unemployed people on the spectrum who have taken the first step in helping themselves and have listed over on auties.org .
I look forward to hearing from some of you and asking you some email questions as part of an email interview I’ll then put up on my blog so readers can learn more about who you are, what your skills and interests are and what kind of work you think you might succeed at. You never know, there may be autism friendly people needing someone with your skills who will read it and offer you autism friendly work.
Warmly, Donna Williams *)
Hello Donna,
Havent been in contact with you for years. Being a professional Actor as I am is pretty well the same as being ‘unemployed’. Just rarely get jobs. But I survive.
My major interest as far as things I can offer the public these days, are my lecture presentations. Lots of them are illustrated by digital visual material, on Art History (of which there are several I can offer). As well, I offer a demonstration/lecture/performance of 19th century Phrenology – which I do at the Ballarat Outdoor museum .. Sovereign Hill.
Also lecture Craft of the Actor, in which I do comedy, read poems, etc etc.
Good luck with your project, Ron.
I am an artist,specifically photographer, though also visual artist in mediums of charcoal, mosaic and sculpture. I am also a consultant on spectrum issues for parents. I have 5 children, 4 of whom are also on spectrum.
Brilliant, Donna.
This is a terrific idea! I hope you get lots of responses!
Hi cyber friend,
I love reading and hearing your interviews of people. Thank you very much for continuing on with this.
I know added a bunch of my closeup photos of buds and flowers on http://www.flickr.com/dithorsos.
Here are more links to my videos:
Stereotyping and Autism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dNeFIP0th4
Introduction to My Artworks
Mood Fluctuation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2DOmEiqyZ0
Debbie
I’m unemployed (though that might change soon), 18 years old, and diagnosed PDD NOS.