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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
| oldmantime |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2011, 10:57 pm
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Zokk wrote: oldmantime wrote: Some of us weren't diagnosed until late I wasn't diagnosed until I was 17, after I started working there.
That's early. I was 27 or so before I was diagnosed. I had already been homeless 3 times by that point. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
| oldmantime |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2011, 10:56 pm
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| Yeah. I have a Master's degree. A professional degree for a profession that I am very good at. A profession that's good for aspies, really. But I can't get work. I can't pass the interview process. It's like that deal in Imperial China where a person had to write a perfect poem about plum blossoms ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: The real reason why Aspies are often unemployable. |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2011, 10:52 pm
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| I just consider the entire original post to be trolling. I have AS, and I'm fully employable. I held the same job for three and a half years, without even once having a customer, a co-worker, or a superior bring a complaint against me. I'd still be working there if I hadn't relocated to a different... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The ability to shut down nerves. Any docs researching this? |
| oldmantime |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2011, 10:44 pm
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| If so, please tell me of them. If there are any of the type who would please let me know. My personal sensitivity is noise, but others have it with smell and touch. Wouldn't be nice if we could turn off these senses so that we could think, or sleep or whatever? It would be liberating and as such I h... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: solar storms to turn every nuke plant into a fukushima? |
| oldmantime |
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Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 11:22 am
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Replies: 35
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| actually, i just read from an electrical engineer that this could happen. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: removal of aspergers from DSM-4? |
| oldmantime |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2011, 1:50 pm
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Replies: 18
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| http://cullenboysanonymous.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/taylor-lautner-cfda-fashion-04-701x1024.jpg I just read on the above link that they may be getting rid of aspergers and autism and instead lumping everyone in a new category known as ASD. what do you think? why are you posting a pic of a pig... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Republicans want to limit access to SSI for children |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2011, 1:33 pm
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Replies: 98
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| y'all do realize that you could tax EVERYONE in this country to kingdom come and it never would pay down the debt we've been burdened with, right? the best way to get rid of it is to declare it illegal gains. I've pointed out this fact for a number of times, however they are attempting to appeal to... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: All drugged up to feel "normal" |
| oldmantime |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2011, 7:44 pm
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| yeah, a lot of these meds can literally kill you, and destroy your health in many other ways. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Republicans want to limit access to SSI for children |
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Posted: 24 Aug 2011, 7:12 pm
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Replies: 98
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| y'all do realize that you could tax EVERYONE in this country to kingdom come and it never would pay down the debt we've been burdened with, right? the best way to get rid of it is to declare it illegal gains. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: getting SSI |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 12:32 am
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Replies: 10
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| I've not applied, but have been told that there's no way that I don't qualify and have been strongly encouraged to apply. I'm trying to get a job for a few more months before I break down and start the application and apparently reapplication process. go ahead and apply. you can work and have this ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: getting SSI |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 12:31 am
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Replies: 10
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| Was denied first time, am reapplying. Ridiculous they deny everyone the first time. Come on now. Why would someone be applying for this if they didn't need it. I value my pride so much I'm doing everything I can to make money to NOT be on it. Not that it's shameful to be on it. I just... well I am ... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Did prescription drugs destroy my creativity? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 12:18 am
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| Welbutrin and Lexapro destroyed my creativity when I was on them, but it came back when I stopped taking them. I have also lost my creativity when I was overtired or overstimulated, and I wonder if that's what's happened to you. As tSunshineLove suggested, your life as it now may simply be too dema... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Did prescription drugs destroy my creativity? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 12:15 am
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| It is absolutely the drugs. I had my Asperger's diagnosis years after ADD, but it was to late, narcotically speaking. I was put on Ritalin at 3 years of age, and even though I spent months in a child psychiatry ward at age 9 where they took me off medication . . . an unlikely occurrence at age 18 r... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Cancer has been cured. But will the economy allow it? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 12:08 am
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| Game over. Final commentary... Antineoplaston Therapy Antineoplaston (ANP) is a name coined by Stanislaw Burzynski for a group of peptides, derivatives, and mixtures that he uses as an alternative cancer treatment. These compounds are not licensed as drugs but are instead sold and administered by B... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: How does one start losing weight? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 12:02 am
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| do NOT reduce your calories. 2000 a day is what most women need. reduce your carbs, eat nothing that isn't whole and organic. eat plenty of healthy fat too. look up nutritional typing as well. it doesn't matter how much i eat. a carb diet will make me fat. a fat diet will make me lean. a low calorie... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: getting SSI |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2011, 7:43 pm
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Replies: 10
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| it sucks ass. don't go on it unless you have no other choice. it takes forever. you do NOT have to exaggerate to get on it like some people will tell you. i don't think you even need a lawyer, as i didn't. they WILL deny you the first time no matter what so always reapply. if you can work, work. it'... |
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