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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Five fields an Aspie should NEVER work in |
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Posted: 12 Oct 2011, 4:26 am
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Replies: 176
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| 3) EMERGENCY SERVICES: I recommend that any Aspie stay a long, long way away from this field!! Police, fire and paramedic services can be stressful, involve using intuition under pressure (police), having good motor skills, being thick-skinned, and so on...they also are heavy on social brotherly co... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: What makes a workplace ASD friendly? |
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Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 7:31 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,897
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| I'm an Aspie who works in an emergency department. I've never quite figured out how the constant chaos doesn't bother me - but I do need constant stimulation in my job or I get very bored/anxious/stereotypical. I also need a very quiet home life to counterbalance it. I'm wary of AS friendly workplac... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Paying someone to write my resume for me? |
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Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 7:21 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 11,425
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| I would definitely try and get it done professionally. I have had to work through large stacks of CVs, and believe me, when you have several hundred applicants per job, you simply cannot read them all. Rather like working through the slush pile, I had simple rules that enabled me to trim to a manage... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Would you tell them about it? |
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Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 7:08 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,053
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I agree too.
You usually know nothing about the person interviewing you, and sadly 99% of people view any disability as a negative when interviewing, even if only subconsciously. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Therapist says Aspies can't work, should be on disability |
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Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 6:59 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 5,759
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| It would be hard getting a job if you were blind - but lots of blind people do. It would be hard getting a job if you were in a wheelchair - but people in wheelchairs find jobs. I don't think it's all about the disability. Of course it's harder if you're not 'normal'. But I think it's far worse to s... |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Aspie women and weight |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 1:34 am
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Replies: 116
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| Erisad, you can do it! - I weighed 110 kg (that's about 230lbs) this time last year. I'm down to 70kg, and though I've done this before and regained the weight, this time I'm going to watch what I eat - every mouthful. It isn't fun having a crap metabolism, and most people don't believe that I have ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: "Ass burger" jokes |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 1:01 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,226
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| Is anyone else here sick of seeing these annoying jokes all over the internet? Whenever the term "autism" comes up, usually "Asperger syndrome" is short to follow... And with comes this flock of lifeless dicks on the internet that immediately crack these stupid jokes, and that really pisses me off.... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Feeling worse after diagnosis. |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 12:09 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,138
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| All my life I've thought and been told that if I just put more effort in I'd fit in, I'd be accepted, I wouldn't screw up with my personal life or organisational skills and things would get better. When I couldn't get by in the mainstream I tried and tried to find a niche in a sucession of subcultu... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Meeting with Psychiatrist for Dx - Big Letdown |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2010, 12:16 am
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Replies: 24
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| Doctors care about one thing: Money. Where's the money? Drug company kickbacks. The more pills they push, the more money they make - pure and simple. What I don't understand is why people are surprised at this behavior. Actually this is a total myth. The average doc doesn't make any money from drug... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Brain Balance Achievement Centers-- have you heard of this? |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2010, 4:25 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 13,097
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| Two tips - anecdotes of improvement are not evidence. Hope has a huge placebo effect, and scamsters feed on the parents of autistic kids to a degree that is quite sickening. People who found BB unhelpful are likely to simply leave, and no one at this centre will tell you about them. What you want to... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Not Crying At Funerals |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2010, 11:20 am
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Replies: 36
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| i thought it was just me that felt nothing inside emotions wise , i didnt cry at my dads funeral at all and my mum called me a heartless bithch for it for years after, i just didnt feel upset inside and didnt cry i felt nothing inside some times it confuses me how emotional people get in some situa... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: NT Parents |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2010, 11:06 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,765
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| I'll add to this, some bits from a personal perspective, some more general: Don't make your AS kid scared of you by hitting them when they're crying and saying 'I don't understand, I don't know what I did wrong.' Don't make them hide their fears, their meltdowns, their head-banging from you because ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Completely unmotivated to do much anything right |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2010, 8:28 am
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| What do you like doing? what are you good at? Two words - adult education. How could you train to a point where you could get a job doing lighting or sound for the sort of festivals you enjoy? Who employs the ticket sellers, and do they get a free pass? Clearly music interests you - despite being de... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Death of a sibling- how do/did you deal?? |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2010, 4:42 am
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Replies: 9
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| My father died when I was 16. I didn't know how to ask for help or even a hug; everyone took my silence as an indication that I was OK. I cried myself to sleep every night for 2 years. I couldn't say the word 'father' in reference to him until I was 33. I simply didn't know how to ask people to give... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Since the Dx... |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2010, 3:45 am
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Replies: 10
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| Sorry - just reread that and realised that it does come across as one long whine...I do get very down at times. My brother, whom I'm pretty sure is an undiagnosed Aspie, is getting married next year, which is wonderful. Although we live in different countries, I'm hoping to be allowed to be an aunti... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Since the Dx... |
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Posted: 21 Jun 2010, 2:57 am
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Replies: 10
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| When I was diagnosed last year it felt like a bunch of stormtroopers had invaded my life and taken me away to be put in a camp with the 'abnormal' people, and told me there was no way I could ever get back. Now it's like standing behind a pane of glass, watching everyone else living normal, interact... |
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