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How are autistic people supposed to survive in America

I'm autistic but my psychiatrist says I'm high functioning. Due to that, the only support or accommodations I get is antidepressants. I can't DO this. I go to school full time and work full time. I make 17 an hour and I overdraft my bank account every week because I can't afford to live. I'm doing everything right but I can't afford to live. Work is so difficult for me as an autistic person. Transitions are difficult for people like us, and I spend most of my time in anxiety thinking about transitioning between work and home. And at work I'm forced to speak with customers, which means I have to mask all day or else people think I'm rude or unfriendly. Then I'm exhausted from the masking. I can't make time for my homework because I have a shit job and I'm always stressing about it I don't even…


I'm autistic but my psychiatrist says I'm high functioning.

Due to that, the only support or accommodations I get is antidepressants.

I can't DO this.

I go to school full time and work full time. I make 17 an hour and I overdraft my bank account every week because I can't afford to live.

I'm doing everything right but I can't afford to live.

Work is so difficult for me as an autistic person. Transitions are difficult for people like us, and I spend most of my time in anxiety thinking about transitioning between work and home.

And at work I'm forced to speak with customers, which means I have to mask all day or else people think I'm rude or unfriendly. Then I'm exhausted from the masking.

I can't make time for my homework because I have a shit job and I'm always stressing about it

I don't even know how non autistic people handle this??

I'm so overwhelmed by life.

Like I legit do not think I can do this for sixty more years or whatever. I think about having to work for a living and it makes me genuinely s*icidal even tho I'm terrified of death. But this is so overwhelming. I can't.

And i keep running out of money because my bank keeps charging me so much in overdraft fees that when I get paid again, I have like $50 because they charge me a $30 fee for a .99 cent purchase and it adds up to like $120 a week because they seem to rearrange the purchases to make sure they can get the most out of me… I swear “pending” charges are a load of bull

This is just way too much. I feel like I'm going to explode.

There's no way this is possible for me. There's no way this is sustainable.

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