Just a wee update on my own journey, I never did get involved with SAP as there would've been some considerable cost to relocation which I wasn't up to at the time, or indeed with Specialisterne UK (they've changed their name to the English words 'The Specialists' when I last noticed) I did get a contact from Specialisterne Ireland and got professional testing work, but my bread and butter employment is as a Support Worker in Health and Social Care, and that's been a good work/Home balance for me, and has given me financial security, whilst I learn mobile app development and undertake freelance work, it has taken quite a long time to get to this position and it's happened largely by getting a bit of a 'leg up' as well as having some courage and focus, my son who also has Aspergers is doing a degree in Game development despite the fact that his secondary school said they couldn't support him and referred him to a special school ( which would've meant he wouldn't have had access to the usual school qualifications framework,) but the special school rejected the reasons put by the school, and he then went on to stay and finally go to college getting a HNC then a HND , which gave him access to a University degree course, I don't know how I would feel about him being involved with 'The Specialists' to be honest, I don't know if employment opportunities in Scotland for people on the spectrum are any better or any worse, but I guess I'm going to have to look into it.
P.S.S. No idea were this post is actually going to end up under the threads
24 Jul 2016, 7:31 am
