I have Aspergers and live alone and I find having people in to do jobs really stressful, (plumbers, electricians etc). Even when they are very nice, I find them so loudly chatty, boisterous, and they bang around, and it's just someone unknown in my space, and I'm expected to talk to them, and make them tea. I'm not saying they aren't really lovely people it just really freaks me out (and the knowledge that they're coming actually makes my IBS flare up.)
Today I had an electrician in, and he was so softly spoken and so gentle and worked really quietly, (and didn't expect a stream of conversation). (He was also really reasonable money-wise. I'm not saying who it was as this isn't an advert for him.)
I'm not aware of an ASP-friendly list of workpeople, does this exist? Or if it doesn't, would it be a nice thing to have?
Maybe it would be impossible (and also perhaps unfair) to filter workpeople this way. But as someone who finds it really hard to deal with any sort of interaction, this was so unexpectedly painless.