Autistic Civil Servant

Home
United Kingdom
London
Autistic Civil Servant

Blogs about being an autistic civil servant written so other autistic civil servants don't feel alone

05/01/2026

This New Year do your autistic colleagues a favour? Just do the management basics right. Just that can make a huge difference.

If you’re having a good day at work, a good manager can make that great – helping you to understand what your work is for, why it matters, and appreciating the good you’re doing. …

29/12/2025

Thomas Becket, killed this day in 1170, was a turbulent priest who stood up to power on principle. Sadly, that's what being autistic can feel like all too often.

There are important people, and less important people, right? There are people you look up to and whose authority you respect, and people you expect to do as you tell them. This is expressed by ran…

22/12/2025

For many people Christmas is about family, but what does it mean for a family to find out that one of you is different to what you'd thought?

I write a lot about the positives of autism, about the fact that autistics are everywhere, that we’re not something (all that) weird, and that we can be successful professionals and leaders. …

15/12/2025

Christmas is coming,
Jumpers getting itchy,
Autistics everywhere are now
Starting to get twitchy.
A curse on all uncomfortable Christmas jumpers!

OK so Christmas Jumpers are probably not the worst of the world’s problems right now but bear with. This blog focusses on the particularly autistic issues of the world and right now, Christma…

08/12/2025

Autistics are stereotyped as unemotional but we can also become emotionally overwhelmed very easily, and the pressure to hide those emotions then just makes everything worse.

The autistic stereotype is that we’re unemotional. We have blank facial expressions (well I do when you try to explain IT to me), flat modes of speaking and are thought of as lacking in empat…

01/12/2025

Christmas is coming, Autistic's getting scared, Everything's all different, Please help us feel prepared!

Christmas is a wonderful time of year with friends, family, food, presents, lights, music and togetherness. It’s a chance to step outside the normal day to day routine and do something differ…

24/11/2025

Maybe someone you know has just got diagnosed autistic. So what do you say? I tend to start with "congratulations on your diagnosis!" since knowing yourself better is always good.

Lots of people are getting autism diagnoses in adulthood, and while some friends and family see it coming, for others it can be quite a surprise. They may have thought You don’t look autistic, for …

17/11/2025

Small talk's a social expectation - a code. It doesn't exchange any information and it doesn't require honesty. So why do the neurotypicals need it?

If you’re autistic it’s likely one of your struggles in life is small talk. You go up to someone and you need a piece of information from them – but can you just ask for it? No & #…

10/11/2025

Face the facts! Easier said than done for many people, but for autistics it can be the only way we can cope with the world.

Talking to other autistic people in the workplace, I’ve tended to find that they prefer to look facts in the face like I do, but others may differ. Sometimes just knowing that actually the wo…

03/11/2025

The autistic nightmare - when the simple words you say are interpreted to mean something else that's bad, and everything you do to try to unravel the misunderstanding makes it worse.

You say something. The person you’re talking to’s face changes. They go very silent and walk away. Much MUCH later, you find out what they took your words to mean, which wasn’t wh…

27/10/2025

Being very conscientious is good, right? But for an autistic brain it can easily flip over into not knowing when to stop!

There’s plenty of things in a world not designed for autistics that can make our lives difficult. But we autistics can also work against ourselves with over-conscientiousness – going no…

20/10/2025

Dress for the job you want not the one you have, right? Well if you're an autistic person, smartening up your clothes might be the one thing you just can't do.

Picture the stereotype you have in your head of an autistic person. It’s probably a geek or a nerd – maybe wearing loose, scruffy clothes and trainers, possibly with thick glasses, hair…

Address

London

Website

https://helenjeffries.wordpress.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Autistic Civil Servant posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Featured

Help Mind Body

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in London?