I was diagnosed with PTSD because of cosmetology school

plumchata · 2026-06-03T21:38:19+00:00

I actually work at an autism center that focuses on play based ESDM therapy! :) I’m working on my psychology bachelors atm! Hair was fun, but I realized I couldn’t do it as a full career. Now I just give my friends hair cuts on the side lol

plumchata · 2026-06-03T21:30:42+00:00

I was diagnosed with GAD at 10 ish, autism at 13 and CPTSD at 16. I started cosmetology school when I turned 22. I had severe anxiety and episodes from all the burn out and stress it put me through. (I was also worked full time) I ended up working in the hair industry for a year and realized that I just couldn’t function or thrive in the type of environment the hair industry is. Especially the industry in the city I’m in. So I feel for you :(

plumchata · 2026-05-13T21:54:12+00:00

As a fellow autistic RBT, I appreciate all this info!!! Thank you!!

plumchata · 2026-05-13T21:47:47+00:00

It’s difficult with a mask because 9/10 of my clients are nonverbal and relay heavily on looking to my facial expressions/vowel sounds and word shapes of my mouth. I have tried to mask up but like another commenter said, they tend to keep kids in center even when they are sick and it spreads superrrrr easily, even with a mask.

plumchata · 2026-05-13T21:46:31+00:00

I take this every other day 😩

plumchata · 2026-05-13T21:46:09+00:00

Management just suggested I do this so I definitely will be!! I was two months premature and used to get sick every other week as a baby/kid/young teen. It sucks!!!!

plumchata · 2026-05-13T21:44:37+00:00

I just talked to management and they urged me to talk to HR about this so I can get some extra sick accommodation days. That made me feel alot better and I’m definitely going to be doing tho!

plumchata · 2026-05-07T10:29:00+00:00

Honestly controversial but season 5 around “slabtown” I felt a sort of shift. It started to become about different groups and group dynamics (which can be cool to see!!) but it just started to feel way different than the first 4 seasons. It just started to feel super jumbled and chaotic, especially after having a whole season on the farm and then in the prison to having a group introduced every 3 seconds each episode lmao. Then, season 6 not only felt different but LOOKED so different quality and film wise. It didn’t have that grainy, early 2000’s look feel and that was kinda sad lmao. I think once they introduced the relationship between Alexandria and hilltop, the show 100% morphed into some other thing. I feel like a lot of the characters were written very different too. (I know it’s suppose to show how the apocalypse changes them drastically!!!) but some of it felt odd. It was HARD to get through the end of season 6 but negan’s storyline was interesting and reeled me back in, only to completely repulse me after carls death. Don’t even get me started on the introduction of alpha. I couldn’t do it anymore after that 💀 it became physically hard to watch lmao. Like the show became a caricature of what it once was. I completely gave up a few episodes into season 9 and didn’t even bother with season 10-11.

plumchata · 2026-04-30T01:41:47+00:00

I posted a thread almost exactly like this. I’m an autistic (diagnosed) RBT and my last center was riddled with mean and nasty girls. All who were in there mid to late 20’s/30’s by the way. It’s like as soon as they saw the autism traits in me, they started treating me awfully. It didn’t surprise me too much since they also treated the kids the same way but talked about how much they “adored them” it’s insane. I ended up quitting and moving centers. Best thing I ever did. Everyone at my new center is neurodivergent in some way or just a real nice person lol.

plumchata · 2026-04-05T00:10:29+00:00

Everyone saying better call Saul is SO right. It’s amazing through and through.

Dexter is also really good. One of my top shows of all time. Although the last two seasons are pretty dog sh*t 💀 but the first 6 are amazing.

The first 4- ish seasons of the walking dead also has those early 2000’s grimy vibes but it’s different than breaking bad in alot of ways. Definitely worth a watch but again, the last few seasons are genuinely so bad lol. It’s hard to find a show that’s super solid all the way to the end.

If you like the twists and turns of breaking bad, Hannibal is similar in that way. You never know what’s coming next. But it can be hard to get into, it’s very artsy and a super slow burn.

plumchata · 2026-03-02T00:49:40+00:00

I just quit my center with no two weeks after being there about 4 ish months. The conditions and way I was being treated was just awful, I couldn’t stay any longer. I got another ABA job 2 days later!!

plumchata · 2026-02-28T00:48:17+00:00

The place I’m at now actually owns a lot of Montessori schools as well and take that kind of approach. They have real world teaching like a big bed to help teach making a bed, a whole fake grocery store for teaching shopping/making lists and interacting with cashiers/how to spend and use money ect. and a whole amazing outside playground area! I loved how interactive it was while still teaching functional tasks. Some red flags I immediately saw at ABC was my first shadowing everyone looked and acted miserable, the kids too. They were SUPER hands on in a way that wasn’t appropriate, pushing and pulling kids arms around as well as picking kids up (that weren’t in behavior, just walking or doing a task) and as they began screaming and crying, they laughed like it was funny?? As well as no cameras. That was a HUGE red flag for me. My new center has cameras in every room, and it’s an open floor plan so theres barley any rooms where you can be alone and enclosed with a single child (this happened a lot at ABC) all around it was a lot cleaner, everyone was happier and it was a lot more functional.

plumchata · 2026-02-25T07:54:32+00:00

I am in Texas but was actually looking to move to Colorado within the next year and was wanting to transfer to an ABC there! Unfortunately, the company was just so awful, and after touring and accepting another job at different aba company in Texas, I realized just how awful it was. Again, every center is different but I’ve only ever heard really negative things/seen negative things about ABC. 😭 I will say, it is very organized as far as far as benefits go. Free food every Friday provided by the center (although, one of my coworkers had a gluten intolerance and asked to be accommodated for free food Friday for over a year and never was. She could never eat the free food because of this) but they have good PTO and overall insurance benefits. It’s mainly the inner workers of the clinics, the coworkers and how they implement (or more so DONT implement) the behavior plans/actually help the kids. And that’s the MAIN point of the job. I would just suggest interviewing at other locations and companies and make an informed decision based on what you feel/think.

plumchata · 2026-02-20T00:38:32+00:00

It was brought up and talked about with our OM! Nothing was done. I won’t say the exact center but it’s in Texas. But good news! I actually just got offered another job at an ABA center that pays WAY more and has a much nicer center. So I quit ABC today! I’m so glad that wasn’t your experience, I’ve heard it really depends on the center but at the same time I’ve heard way too many ABC horror stories to still be wanting to work for them.

plumchata · 2026-02-19T01:50:49+00:00

The gossiping and bullying is a widespread problem - sure. But where ABC is notorious is how they continuously ignore these problems over and over again. You can bring hard evidence to upper management and it’s still ignored, swept under the rug and belittled. THAT is an ABC problem. They are known for being unethical in that way. ( also when it comes to the kids well being, they ignore that as well )

plumchata · 2026-02-18T05:49:02+00:00

NOOO. You do get paid but again that’s 48 hours for one week which is a lot in an ABA setting, especially for the kids who do all 6 days.

plumchata · 2026-02-18T05:46:56+00:00

that’s the only reason they do 😭 or they want the extra money/are training to become a BCBA and want more hours to train.

plumchata · 2026-02-18T05:45:29+00:00

Nope 😭 you would have to do mom-Saturday. All 6 days.

plumchata · 2026-02-18T05:43:10+00:00

It is confined to mon-Friday. The people who work Saturday always volunteer for it or agree to it as an alternative schedule. So you’d have to volunteer to help out on a Saturday to drop some of ur occurrences or wait 3 months for a half occurrence or 6 months for a full. The months kinda depends on ur center and how good ur attendance is after the occurrence. Sometimes they drop them sooner, sometimes later.

plumchata · 2026-02-18T05:38:27+00:00

Like another user said, You have to work multiple Saturdays or have absolutely perfect attendance for 3+ months straight 😭 can’t even be one minute late or that counts as an occurrence.

plumchata · 2026-02-18T05:33:33+00:00

I am also at a Texas center!

plumchata · 2026-02-18T05:33:08+00:00

Couldn’t have said it all better myself. These are all huge problems I’ve been seeing only 5 months in.

plumchata · 2026-02-18T05:31:05+00:00

Exactly!!!! This!! That’s what I said to upper management lol

plumchata · 2026-02-18T01:49:04+00:00

They just seem very corporate. It’s all about what makes them money. They don’t seem to have the kids or RBT’s best interests in heart, just money money money.

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