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alltoomuch2
Experienced
- Feb 10, 2024
- 287
I'm late diagnosed autistic. Always found conversations and social stuff difficult. Since my breakdown I've felt no hope, no purpose, wanted to ctb. Then I realised id like to help people who had mental suffering by volunteering for the Samaritans, and getting a job with the mental health services as a peer support worker. I started going to wellbeing centres etc and starting to talk to people, just normal talking, not about mental health. And twice I have made someone feel obviously worse. They were fine talking to others, just not me. And that's taken away my hope again. How can I be a peer support worker or Samaritan if I make people feel bad. Is there some way I can find out what I'm doing wrong, or learn to do it right? To be able to calm and encourage people. To make them feel better. Anyone with ASD got any ideas, otherwise it's back on the other Sasu thread for me ![Loudly crying face :sob: š](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62d.png)
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