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Semi_Lost_Serenity
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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: Aspie business? |
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If Aspies had a buisness, what would it be? In theory, would it be easier to work among fellow Aspies as opposed to neurotypicals? Would that social scene/structure still remain the same?
For me, personally, I would cut out all the drama and the urgency. Yeah, still make the deadlines and all that - but cut out the "we have to be number one or perish" attitude.
What do you all think?
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Tim_Tex
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:21 am Post subject: |
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Since the Aspie community is so diverse, an ideal Aspie business could be anything.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| Though it could be anything, I think it would most likely be a hobby store, either about one hobby or an eclectic collection of hobbies. |
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Semi_Lost_Serenity
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Not so much the contents of the business, but the environment of the business. Would it be better or worse than a regular, neurotypically ran work environment?
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girl7000
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:52 am Post subject: |
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I think it would be better. I have been bullied in NT work environments.
Where I work now, people are understanding about AS and my manager (who has worked there for years) has been doing a lot of reading about ASDs and says that she thinks at least half the people where I work have AS!
When she first said this, I smiled politely but inside was thinking 'yeah, right'. But after hearing her reasons for thinking this and having been there long enough now to get to know some of the people there, I really see her point and I think that there are at least a few aspies there!
It is nice because people understand and they empathise with things like sensory and social overload too. In NT work places, people either had a go at me or enjoyed watching me struggle with overload. |
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Phoenix
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:27 am Post subject: |
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It is in the mix. I have a doing things curse, it forces me to deal with the world.
Getting anything done through other people is harder than doing it myself.
From businesses I get bids that are ten or more times going rates. Even when I bring them to a reasonable price, they screw it up so I can pay them to do it over.
Contractors and employees seem to not only not do what they were paid for, but to steal anything they can. What they cannot steal they destroy.
I do invent, build prototypes, need lots of artwork, and hate all humans, I am an employer.
"Treat them like people,
they act like dogs,
treat them like dogs,
they act like well behaved dogs."
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Such has been my one to one dealing with the world. Now it is all by internet. They come through.
I can buy and sell with strangers with no problems. I think it has to do with being an aspie. In person, or on the phone, I get nothing but games. Being self employed seems to offend wage slaves. They cannot do it, so they will take their revenge on the world on anyone who trys.
Since I hold patents, and I am going to make a lot of money, everybody thinks I should give them some. No money has been made, I invest for years, my money and my life, and then get told I am greedy and should share, or I could have an accident.
As an employer I would think I should have a sideline, canned dog food. I seem to have an endless supply of raw material.
So much for the NT world. I have never tried aspies. They are fairly rare. Inventors are rarer.
I publish, I need Illustrators, drawing is not one of my better skills. Most of my needs are mechanical, silk screening, plastic injection molding, prepress, and machine parts. Finding anyone who will do the jobs they take on has been near impossible. Paying them does not help.
Employment takes treating them like slaves and thieves, workers must be opressed!
I would like to work with people I admire, but I seem to be on the Wrong Planet. |
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willem
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:40 am Post subject: Re: Aspie business? |
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| Semi_Lost_Serenity wrote: | | If Aspies had a buisness, what would it be? In theory, would it be easier to work among fellow Aspies as opposed to neurotypicals? Would that social scene/structure still remain the same? For me, personally, I would cut out all the drama and the urgency. Yeah, still make the deadlines and all that - but cut out the "we have to be number one or perish" attitude. What do you all think? |
I think this is an excellent idea, and it might work out very well. A lot of the crap that makes it hard for Aspies to get & keep a job simply follows from the desires & behavior of NT co-workers and is unnecessary (or even counter-productive) with regard to the functioning of the business. We'd be happier and better-functioning working among people whose desires & behavior were at least somewhat similar to our own. I also like your idea of not having that "number one or die" attitude; it's perfectly possible to be number, say, 23, and provide everybody with enough income to take home.
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Semi_Lost_Serenity
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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I'd want to work in a place that had a melt down room. How'd cool would that be? No more trying to figure out if you should call in sick or whatever...just come in and if you wind up not feeling well, just go to the "melt down" room. Then there'd be a room with trampolines and other sensory items and another room for meditation ... I wonder if any work would get done lol But, I'd think it'd be a TONS better than any ol' NT workplace.
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I have not one but two businesses. One I have my own home improvement company but it's just me who does everything. Two I restore and sell items at a local flea market, mostly antiques, in which my wife helps me. I don't work well with others so starting a bigger company would not be a good thing
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