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Hooraayyy first interview over with and rejeeeected! (sarcasm, even though we're not supposed to have it)

Look at it in a positive light. At least you got an interview and actually turned up.

Yeah, it's weird, I'm sarcastic all the time. Everyone's different I suppose.

It's just the first one, the next one will be better.

Even the best get rejected.

The Beatles were rejected quite a few times before a record company took a risk with them.

If you get the job interview, you were selected among a lot of people as a possible candidate - it's always small details between the candidates that make the difference.

If you need a good laugh, read this rather brilliant rejection to a rejection http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/humor/reject.html

Getting invited for an in-person interview is a large victory already, celebrate that.

Being rejected sucks, yes, but you could have been rejected on the letter alone. That didn't happen.

The more experience you get the more you figure out how to succeed the next time around.
I cannot stress this enough. Always review your own performance even after failures.
You learn the most-important lessons in life when you study your own failures.
Use your Aspieness to your advantage ! I will explain what I mean by this...

...basically, creativity during survival-pressure is one of our huge, HUGE advantages.
Consider this, I have often tackled the highest difficulty levels, such as in video-games.
Have I always won ? Definitely not. Sometimes the attempts are disasterous.
I do things like take on missions/quests that are recommended for 20 or 30 levels higher.

Eventually, however, when I keep track of the progress, make notes of the obstacles...
...what I can do is then come up with a better strategy for the next time I proceed.
This allows me to practice "mapping out non-existent strategies" into existence.
Life as an Aspie forces us all to live in somewhat unmapped psychological-territory.

That means we have to be able to develop our METAPHORICAL map-making skills.
You also have an advantage of having experienced Aspies like myself on these forums.
I can provide limited amounts of guidance but I cannot develop your skills for you.
Recall back to what questions were asked of you during your interview.

Believe me when I say that MOST interview-questions for MOST jobs are VERY similar.
They will repeat a lot of the same questions the more interviews you experience.
Keep that in mind, use role-playing as necessary, look at all of the possibilities.
Play both the role of the interviewer and the prospect until you can answer quickly.

I think what irritates me most about the experience was the NTness of it; I felt that I did a good job in the interview and the interview acted that same way as well, asking if I made sure all of the communication information on my application was correct so we could "keep in touch" and "move forward" I wish the interviewer had just left it at "thank you for your time" instead of setting up false hope.

Every no gets your closer to a yes

What general kind(s) of job are you looking for? What general kind(s) of job are you qualified for?