Hi. I currently work 25 hours as a p/t TA. I have just been asked to up this to all day every day. 840-3.10. I will be working with an autistic child who is statemented. My son is autistic so they have chosen me for this role because of my experience. I am virtually a single parent as my husband does very little to help so if I take these extra hours - the 1.5 hrs a day of me time I currently get disappears. It basically means I go to work and work with this autistic child then come home to 'autism'!!! I will have to pay out child care as my children are at a different school and I don't think it would really be cost effective to have to pay for child care every day although it would only be for a small amount of time I would still have to pay for an hours childcare. I could suggest finishing half an hour early so I can still pick my children up and I think they would be ok with this. However I find it really hard to keep up with everything at the moment let alone if I was doing more hours. I get no help during the holidays or weekends so I would literally be living and breathing autism. Do u think I would be mad to take this on and give myself even more stress?? I love my job and love what I do but relish my 'me time'. If I say no I feel I am letting this little girl down as she needs 1:1 continuity.
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