Successful to Burnt Out: I've been there too Darl, #1
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Employment and purpose. The sudden crash. The long recovery.
In the bulk of this memoir, Karletta shares how, in 2003, she got her first full-time job - a business administration traineeship - through a program for disadvantaged youth.
By 2005 she moved to Sydney for a dream job. In her soul, she was committed to social change - a one time award winner, teen public speaker, and street mag creator.
Follow Karletta's journey from knowing her place in the world to unemployed, lost and ashamed, and her recovery road to attempts at rebuilding her self esteem and life.
At the end of each chapter, follow along with Lorraine Abbott, Kathy Isaacs, Laina Eartharcher, and Liz Marxon's experiences.
You can listen to Karletta narrating her memoir via podcast. Just search for Audiobooks by KarlettaA.
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Successful to Burnt Out - Karletta Abianac
Successful to Burnt Out:
Featuring experiences of autistic women
by Karletta Abianac
About the Author
Karletta Abianac is a blogger, writer, and former public speaker from Queensland, Australia.
As a teenager, she wrote and produced a street zine in Brisbane called Cookies Youth Magazine.
Karletta has long been a community activist; in 2003, she received a Queensland Government Youth Up-Front Award for her Volunteer Work and Commitment to Social Change
, and her first full-length book was entitled Fill in the Gaps - Guide to Community Event Management.
Karletta received an autism diagnosis as an adult, and her latest book Successful to Burnt Out: Experiences of Women on the Autism Spectrum draws on that experience.
In her free time, Karletta enjoys practicing Egyptian hieroglyphs and collecting rocks near her home in Brisbane.
Contributors
Contributors
The wonderful contributors to this eBook are:
Lorraine Abbott (Rae)
Kathy Isaacs
Laina Eartharcher (pseudonym)
Liz Marxon (pseudonym)
I thank them again for the care and honesty they showed while writing their stories. You've made my eBook pop and sizzle!
Kathy created Access Health Autism. She supports Autistic people to navigate and access the health system in Australia.
You should view Laina's Silent Wave blog. She has a fantastic way of articulating what being Autistic is like for her.
Copyright
The circumstances and conversations are recalled to the best of the author's ability. Errors are purely unintentional.
Copyright © 2016 by Karletta Abianac. All rights reserved. All marketing and publishing rights guaranteed to and reserved by Karletta Abianac. No part of this book may be reproduced and sold in any manner whatsoever without written permission of Karletta Abianac. You may republish excerpts online, embodied in reviews and discussions.
ISBN-13: 978-1-925955-04-0
Cover page image by Cherry Penman 2015. Used with permission.
Abianac, Karletta
Successful to Burnt Out : Experiences of Women on the Autism Spectrum / Karletta Abianac ; contributions by Lorraine Abbott, Kathy Isaacs, Laina Eartharcher, Liz Marxon
BIO033000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People with Disabilities
BIO022000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
First Edition
17,800 words.
Introduction
The build-up. The sudden crash. The effects. The long recovery.
Karletta didn't know why life became exponentially harder. Follow her as she discovers her limitations and finally put names to them. Anxiety. Depression. Autism.
This memoir recounts how Karletta and four other successful women are recovering from burnout.
Successful to Burnt Out is the first book in the 'I've been there too Darl' Autism memoir series.
You can keep updated on her writing and provide feedback on future books through Karletta's email list at http://eepurl.com/cBDCmH
Chapter One: Being Successful
My Achievements
I imagined that by the time I hit twenty-five, I'd be working full-time in a job that I loved. It turned out that I was an independent contractor working on community projects occasionally.
I was struggling but considered myself successful. I was doing what I loved: Writing, learning about running community projects, volunteering, and connected with people I deeply respected.
I had received an award from the Queensland Government and spoken at events to a couple of hundred people. I was an emerging Community Cultural Development worker, Public Speaker, and Workshop Facilitator.
I had written and released an eBook in 2004 on community event management. Years earlier I had occasionally published a street magazine. As it turns out, my articles were written for young people on the Autism Spectrum (Asperger's, an Aspie). My favourite articles were on renting your first house and on managing your budget.
Things I'd achieve would bring me back to happiness and pride. My accomplishments gave me a purpose and self identity if I concentrated hard enough. And I did have to concentrate to feel purposeful.
Contributing to Society
After a Business Administration Traineeship, I completed a mentor program in 2004, being mentored, through Youth Arts Queensland. The program was called Young Artists Mentor Program.
During the program, I had learned more about festival management and drawing on the wisdom of local community groups. I was working at the time with the Visible Ink Youth Festival, for the second year in a row. Visible Ink is, among other things, a hub for young people to run business and projects. It is part of or funded by, Brisbane City Council.
I wrote an eBook about Community Event Management for my end of year project. I eagerly project planned and wrote, with the idea of sharing printable templates and practical advice. This came from hearing of frustrations of some of the contractors and volunteers. Each year they would have to create the documents from scratch. I saw a vacancy of a book and ran with it.
The eBook was called Fill in the Gaps. It was distributed on CD ROM and later on a couple of websites. The Visible Ink program paid for the layout to be redone by a graphic designer. At this time the designer renamed the document to Filling in the Gaps. I've got to admit, I never quite took to that title. I was referring to the actions of writing on printed templates.
Sometime in 2003 I became emotionally heavily invested in a personal development company. The company was big on the concept of transformation. At times I would completely alter my experiences of life and my identity. These changes would be huge. There seemed to be no room for changing yourself in