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 Topic: So how long have you been looking? |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 8
Views: 1602
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 Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:44 am Subject: So how long have you been looking? |
I got my MLIS this past summer, but I finished all the program work last November and was looking for work with a 'degree to be awarded on X' deal.
So I've been hunting for over a year now. For a ... |
| Topic: Can anyone name a strange trait with my autistic son please! |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 13
Views: 1383
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:12 pm Subject: Can anyone name a strange trait with my autistic son please! |
I used to do that when I was a kid. I'd walk around like that, no expression. Often I'd speak while doing it, just saying a word or two over and over.
It disturbed my stepmother a great deal, but ... |
| Topic: No one will hire me :( |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 10
Views: 4437
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:58 pm Subject: No one will hire me :( |
Nobody will hire me either.
Actually, my work history isn't that bad. When I get a job, I hold on to it. I suspect that employers don't really take my years of being self-underemployed all that ser ... |
| Topic: My gripes at ASpartners |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 298
Views: 16038
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:48 pm Subject: My gripes at ASpartners |
Is this a forum for NTs to b***h about their aspie partners? Or for AS people?
*wonders if letting NT-ish hubby let off steam there and get input from others with AS spouses might give him some und ... |
| Topic: My gripes at ASpartners |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 298
Views: 16038
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:28 am Subject: My gripes at ASpartners |
ASPartners is very bigoted against people with AS. It's mean.
AS and Relationships that Work seemed pretty NT-biased to me, and I essentially got booted off it for not understanding some social rul ... |
| Topic: Lunch? Who needs lunch, anyway? |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 18
Views: 1533
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:46 pm Subject: Lunch? Who needs lunch, anyway? |
Why he can't eat while everyone ELSE is eating their lunch -- he's the only one who skips food entirely, it seems -- I dunno. His explanation for *that* made no sense at all.
Probably because ... |
| Topic: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 18
Views: 3120
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:44 am Subject: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
| I dunno. I can get Alprazolam (that's Xanax, if you get the brand-name kind, I get the generic) for panic attacks and it does that. Makes me relaxed and easy and able to cope with people. It's more fo ... |
| Topic: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 18
Views: 3120
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:13 am Subject: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
The way I understand it, anxiety is an Asperger's symptom, and depression is pretty likely for us, since. Well, we're largely unaccepted and underemployed and otherwise devalued.
How would you star ... |
| Topic: Lunch? Who needs lunch, anyway? |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 18
Views: 1533
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:03 am Subject: Lunch? Who needs lunch, anyway? |
| You might try packing his meals in a bento-bako. Bento box. Or a tiffin tin. Either will provide compartments so the food doesn't touch, and will prevent it getting squished. If you chose a bento-bako ... |
| Topic: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 18
Views: 3120
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:34 pm Subject: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
I have no idea what wrong way it might have come. So I guess it didn't?
I just hate being unemployed for different reasons than you. I kinda liked it when I was happily married and my spouse didn' ... |
| Topic: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 18
Views: 3120
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:21 pm Subject: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
| I am immune to boredom, but the impending homelessness is miserable. So is the constant rejection of job hunting. I escalated my search from one or two applications a week, for jobs that actually make ... |
| Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 90
Views: 20226
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:04 am Subject: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
| It's okay. You're a mom. It's not normal, in my experience, for moms not to at least try to refute despair. |
| Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 90
Views: 20226
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:43 pm Subject: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
DW, yeah. It should be like that, but it isn't. I'm 36 years old and have never been financially independent, because it isn't like that. And I don't expect it will be in my lifetime.
What worked q ... |
| Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 90
Views: 20226
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:45 am Subject: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
Yeah.
All I can say is that higher education is fun, and you can put off the nigh-inevitable doing it. But the people who say it'll help you get a good job in the future don't mean you. They mean N ... |
| Topic: Lack of Experience Catch-22 |
Electric_Kite
Replies: 12
Views: 1959
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:23 pm Subject: Lack of Experience Catch-22 |
| I volunteer and just get 'We want two years professional experience." It's better than not volunteering, but it doesn't really fix the problem. |
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