The Autistic Me goes in cycles, as do most blogs, based on my “free” time (irony quotes) for this endeavor. Since it isn’t a paying gig, it has to come after work, school, and family. I’m sure most readers understand that. In January, I resumed work towards my MFA, something…
Category: Employment
Posts on the employment challenges faced by autistics.
Life is okay, if more than a little hectic at the end of this first month. With one month down, I’m 11 months away from my MFA in Film and Digital Technology. Though things might happen and things do go wrong, so far I’m on schedule and things are going…
This fall was a respite of sorts from academia while I concentrated on writing and considered my path ahead. For the last few months, I’ve been working on a mix of screen and stage projects, while also collaborating on some creative writing projects. As December ends, I’m returning to both…
Our lives continue to be normal middle-class suburban lives. We sometimes feel that there’s too much happening, but then I listen to other couples and friends and realize how rather routine and uncomplicated our daily routines are. Many of my friends and neighbors are returning to school in their 30s…
In response to several queries from friends, a bit more elaboration on my plans. I applied for a number of teaching posts and have now received the standard letters proclaiming an “overwhelming number of highly qualified candidates applied” for each opening. Every two years or so, it seems I’m back…
I completed my doctorate in June 2010. It is now June 2015. Five year after earning the doctorate, there’s little to show for it. I have taught, but at my last post I was not on the tenure track and that is unlikely now. I might be a lecturer or adjunct…
The goal of teaching writing led me to scholarship on technology, design, disability, and economics within composition and rhetoric. Years ago, when I entered graduate school, I imagined helping students and teachers connect via technology. I wanted to study “writing across the curriculum” and online writing labs. These interests led…
If I could, I would write full-time. That is what I want, and what I have dreamed of since first grade: to be a professional writer. Teaching seemed like a good way to support writing. But, no luck with that approach. I’m a good teacher. My reviews state this. My course…
Companies, non-profits, and educational institutions should hire me as a consultant (or others with expertise in accommodations and supports for cognitive difference) because too many organizations do not know how to hire, support, and develop talented people with personality traits outside the accepted norms. Readers of this blog know that…
It is that time of the year when I check the job market with the goal of being employed after the school year ends. The anxiety is accompanied by the self-recrimination for not obtaining a STEM degree to qualify for the jobs I know I could do, including teach in…