Trevor O'Neill: ‘My autism diagnosis felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders’

The moment that turned everything around for me was meeting Mary Jordan, a coordinator on the WorkAbility programme, which supports people who have social or mental disabilities, or who have been out of work a long time.

For the previous three or four years from my mid-20s, I’d essentially been running in circles. I’d left a job I had in a paintball arena because I wanted to start my own business, but I basically struggled to find a clear path to reach that goal.

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