Internship update plus rant about things in general

Amy22

I'd thought I would update you all on the internship that I have been doing. It's been going very well. So for those who don't know I'm currently doing a supported internship with a college and a local company in my area. It's for those who identify or have a diagnosis of autism or are neurodivergent.

I love what I do as I am currently working within the marketing department but the things I find hard is the early starts and that it is a full time course Monday to Friday.

To be honest I haven't had any time to relax or even do hobbies eventhough I have been doing more adhd friendly crafts and I did actually draw again which seems like such a long time ago since I have done my art.

I just feel like I'm always exhausted and it's not to do with my bedtime routine because my routine is perfectly fine and normal, I go to bed at 10 maybe sometimes 11. But I just feel this constant feeling of tiredness.

Not to mention that one of our tutors who was previously our tutor also left to do the other course which was a massive change. We were only told last minute so for someone with autism that was really great to deal with (actually not). But I'm aware that people come and go and that's part of life I guess. I shouldn't be too attached to people but I do, I guess it's to do with my empathetic nature or something honestly I don't even know.

After old tutor left we got a new one and she is so lovely, supportive and I say more understanding. Because at times while my previous tutor was great I don't think he really understood neurodivergent people to be fair. Then again my job coach is kind of similar because a lot of the classwork we have been doing seems to be more designed towards younger people rather than adults. However we are getting to ready to learn more proper life skills such as finding employment etc etc. Which is much more better and up my street than just learning stuff I would have learnt in primary school.

I don't know if it's me but sometimes I feel autistic folk tend to get patronised or spoken to like kids rather than genuine adults.

Also not to mention the whole attendance thing which I get punctuality is important but they get thingy about us having sick days or days off. Apparently on the college website it said my attendance was very high yet my job coach I had two sick days so I haven't have high attendance. Yet I always came in early every single day in the morning, put out the laptops and do the lights in the room before even my tutor and job coach enter the building!. Yet they were always late at times.

Again sorry for the long rant I don't really rant as much as I normally do in general. Wow that was a lot, I could go on but we would be here forever to be fair lol.