I saw this recently, and thought that some of it was relevant to churches as well as businesses, especially the bit about enforced fun. Balaam Neurodiversity seems like the new HR buzzword, and for a good reason. Neurodivergent employees are eagerly entering the workplace, bringing along fresh perspectives and valuable skills.Employers … Source: Company Policies …
Tag: Asperger’s Syndrome.
A Farewell
Toby's last service Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, 3 June 2018 Sometimes a blog is hard to write. This is one of them. It should have been easy. All I needed to do was say that this was Toby's final service with us, say what the service as about and wish him well in his new …
Sacked
Sacked My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 31 May 2012 Yesterday I got the news I was dreading, I have been dismissed from where I work. …
Autism awareness and me
Autism awareness and me Aspie mind MCI v LIV April is Autism awareness month, so in many of this month's blogs I have mentioned directly how the issue I was talking about has affected or been affected by my Asperger's Syndrome. Not that the others, are not affected this way, Asperger's affects the way I …
Autism on show
Autism on show (and oblong) The Kirklees Autism Show was yesterday. It is good to see the local council taking such a positive stand. I went, I got there at 11am and left at 12 noon. 20 minutes of that time was for coffee and to look through the paperwork. 10 minutes to take time …
God can’t use me
God can't use me An excuse I am used to hearing. If comes from those who think you have to be especially holy or spiritual. God uses big S saints, the special ones. Well that is wrong. Absolutely totally wrong. Because if God waited to use the holy, spiritual special ones he'd be waiting a …
Hallelujah, Christ is risen.
Let's Celebrate Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield Easter Sunday, 1 April 2018 It was nearly spoilt for me before it started. A touch out of nowhere. I turned to see a smiling face in the row behind wanting to wish me happy Easter. But it was alarming, it was way into the service before I could …
Church is unwelcoming to Aspies
40 blogs of Lent - Day 32 Welcoming Autistic people to church What is church - Day 1 After wading through the messages to seven churches in Revelation, I am concluding my Lenten blogs with a look at the modern church. I will be looking at it from three negative aspects, then five positive ones. …
Preparation: Creation
Creation In the last blog I said that God does nothing without preparing tings first. The creation story shows this if we split the account of 6 days into two sets of 3: The 6 days of creation Preparation Population Day 1 Day 4 And God said, “Let there be light”, and there was light. …
End of an era
I am stopping working. I am too tired . Far too tired. All I do is eat, sleep, work and come home too tired to do anything. I am exhausted. Quality of work is being affected as well as quality of life. I am putting quality of life first. The right foot is still arthritic, …
Making an ass of myself 