TAFE and disability

[Guest_98126199]

New here and needed some people close to my age to ask lol

I have been trying out various TAFE courses and pretty much gave up after trying one unit each time. But apart from that, I have been finding their disability support to be abysmal.

Zero communication, no help outside of hours (I work a 38-hour week so only free during the night or weekends), and all my agents are constantly going on leave or quitting their jobs and no one tells me. So unprofessional! And my complaints to them only give me generic apologies in response.

I am doing the Human Resources Management IV course and I really enjoy the subject but the marking criteria is just way too strict. I want the certificate so I can advance in my career but I can't even complete the first assignment without someone telling me the answers they want specifically. Just seems like all the effort I put in during my precious weekends off is wasted lol

It has now come to a point where I want to drop out again and just resign myself to working low-level jobs like every other person with Autism like me has to do. 🙄

[Croix]

Dear New Member~

I see that you have been waiting quite a while for a reply, a most frustrating thing to happen. Let me reassure you it is not you or the subject of your post, it is simply our system does not always behave as we would like.

First of I'd agree that any help system that only operates in business hours is no help at all to those that are working during the same times, also that constantly changing staff in your agency leaves you without the support you need. It makes matters a lot more difficult that they ought to be.

You mentioned that you had tried several TAFE courses but each time found it too hard to get though the first unit each time , and moved to another unit, which seems like a sensible move. However from what you say you are the type of person that expects specific detailed instructions on the answers you are asked to provide  -and are not getting them.

No wonder you are finding it just about impossible to go on  having such difficulties keeping on repeating. It  can be a most discouraging thing, and may even show that this particular method of education is not really suitable for you. You have certainly put in a lot of effort and shown determination.

While I realize you have an ambition to be in management can I suggest that perhaps TAFE is not going to do what you want. I do not agree with your conclusion that you must "resign myself to working low-level jobs like every other person with Autism like me has to do."

I'd like to point out that many other people with Autism have ended up as respected and famous, even if their formal education was not a success. I'm thinking here of Albert Einstein who found some of his schooling impossible yet became a world-wide authority, all because he was fascinated with magnets.

Their are a host of other examples of people with Autism how have become successes, Charles Darwin, Bill Gates and Emily Dickinson (a poet) are just a few who are reputed to have this condition.

As I result please do not thing any the less of yourself or that you will only ever have poor jobs. Maybe in time you will find other areas you enjoy and are good at. Don't be content with second best - you deserve more.

Croix