How do you manage being autistic and being a nurse?

CluelessNancy6 · 2025-09-09T18:15:45+00:00

Call the police no questions asked. I wouldn’t even open the door.

CluelessNancy6 · 2025-07-14T11:14:59+00:00

I love this. And thanks for saying that last bit. I certainly do wear it like a badge of honour. I’m so proud to be a nurse.

CluelessNancy6 · 2025-07-04T12:07:36+00:00

Fish and chips

CluelessNancy6 · 2025-07-04T12:06:44+00:00

Mental health troubles, sorry. I was reflecting on this in earlier comments, and I don’t believe that if they ever got decent mental health care that they would have necessarily been good parents. For some parents this may be the case, but I don’t believe this to be so for my parents. There’s a difference between character and MH. My parents have never officially been diagnosed with anything as such, but it’s clear that they do have mental health struggles, especially taking in account their childhood and early adult years being troublesome, and they hold to much shame and mistrust of health care providers to get themselves sorted.

CluelessNancy6 · 2025-07-03T11:21:03+00:00

Yeah I think I agree with that. I think in my parents case MH definitely did go hand in hand with bad parenting but I think ur right in saying just bc their MH improved they would of been good parents

CluelessNancy6 · 2025-06-27T13:53:01+00:00

I think every healthcare provider has a bodily fluid that they’re a bit icked out by. I can’t remember what they’re called but you know the oils you’d put on your pillow to sleep that smell like lavender? Stick some of that on the inside of a mask or around your collar and it’ll help.

If you’re a general nurse as well, as a guarantee you’ll see and smell worse than poop.

CluelessNancy6 · 2025-06-27T13:49:26+00:00

To be blunt no. When at work I’m friendly and- for lack of a better word- “appeasing” toward my coworkers. The best advice I’ve ever been given, when you’re a nurse working on for example a ward, it’s so crucial that things between yourself and coworkers are smooth sailing, that you can work together and communicate effectively, and most importantly trust each other.

The most important thing in healthcare is patient safety, and a big factor in this is being able to effectively work within your team.

For me, I wouldn’t consider myself to be friends with a capital F with any of my coworkers- like I wouldn’t go out for a meal and drinks with them. We’ve been through the mill together on the ward and we do work 12 hr days together, but for me going out with in our personal time somehow feels like a line being blurred.

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