This friday it will be four years since Asda took a chance and gave my DS2 a job.
He's a 22 yr old with autism and mild learning disabilities.
Over the four years they have given him support when he needed it, and in return they have discovered that employees with autism/lds can make the best, most reliable, most helpful and least likely to take time off employees ever.
The last few weeks have been tough, and he has been in the frontline every day, dealing with stressed and anxious customers, and quite a few assholes, frankly.
He is anxious (also has OCD ) and his obsession with the stats, the dates ,his huge worries about all the stores across the world dominate his thoughts (he is obsessed with supermarkets )
But he does his job, he does it to the very best of his ability and I am so proud of him. He faces infection every day. And he still just gets on with it.
He is a real star. As are the legions of lowly considered lowly paid supermarket workers who have dealt with loo roll fiascos, customers who refuse to keep their distance and many others.
Two of my other kids are directly covid 19 frontline ..a doctor and a nurse, but my DS2 has overcome the statistics just to be employed as a disabled person, and not once has he moaned about doing extra hours or the amount of hassle he has endured.
I'm proud of him.
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