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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: So how long have you been looking? |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2012, 2:44 am
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Replies: 8
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| 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 while I only applied to library jobs. Then my marriage started to go down the tubes and I started applyi... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Can anyone name a strange trait with my autistic son please! |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2011, 6:12 pm
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Replies: 13
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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 it wasn't unpleasant for me. I'm sure it was stress-related, though. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: No one will hire me :( |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2011, 5:58 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 7,391
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| 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 seriously, though, so it looks like I've been unemployed even more than I have, and I've been unemployed a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My gripes at ASpartners |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2011, 3:48 pm
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Replies: 298
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| 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 understanding and stop bitching at me* ~Kate It's an NT forum to b***h about their aspie partners or susp... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: My gripes at ASpartners |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2011, 11:28 pm
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Replies: 298
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| 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 rule that they wouldn't explain clearly, and for being 'argumentative' by saying it didn't make sense to m... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Lunch? Who needs lunch, anyway? |
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Posted: 22 Sep 2011, 6:46 pm
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Replies: 18
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| 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 eating while monitoring other people's eating to be sure he's not the last one finished is a stressful and ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 11:44 pm
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Replies: 18
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| 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 for emergencies though, it's very addictive and it's not such a good med to take all the time. I take ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 11:13 pm
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Replies: 18
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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 start over? |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Lunch? Who needs lunch, anyway? |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 11:03 pm
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Replies: 18
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| 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 with lots of compartments or a tall but small-diameter tiffin, then you can try small amounts of se... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 10:34 pm
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Replies: 18
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| 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't mind supporting me. It wasn't boring. If you're bored, you can do volunteer stuff. I've done some that... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I HATE BEING UNEMPLOYED |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 7:21 pm
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Replies: 18
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| 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 use of my Master's degree, to one or two applications a day for anything at all. And nothing. Nothi... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
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Posted: 13 Sep 2011, 1:04 am
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Replies: 153
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| It's okay. You're a mom. It's not normal, in my experience, for moms not to at least try to refute despair. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2011, 2:43 pm
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Replies: 153
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| 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 quite perfectly for me was how I got my internship -- I applied, they didn't interview me , they intervi... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2011, 11:45 pm
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Replies: 153
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| 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 NTs. You and me are free to choose fields of study with zero professional applications and it probably w... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Lack of Experience Catch-22 |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2011, 10:23 pm
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Replies: 12
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| 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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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2011, 8:42 pm
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Replies: 153
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| DW, what assistance? I am very clever and highly skilled and just got myself a professional degree in a field that I am very very well suited for. I loved my internship work and, according to my boss-mentor-person there, did an excellent, really impressive job at it. I got help from family and used ... |
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