I wish I was intelligent.

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So, I am a high functioning autistic as most of you know. I work in a hospital and I am about to become an EMT and make 15.00 an hour.




However, I think after working in a hospital. I would like to work as a Physicians Assistant.(Yes, I KNOW I said business, but that is dumb)



Anyway, I am too ret*d to become a Physicians Assistant and there is nothing I can do about that.



I am looking at this organic chemistry class, but know im too dumb to succeed





Yay me. God must hate me

Interesting. Correct me if I'm wrong so sorry but EMT=Emergency Medical Transport basically fancy ancrynom/word for paramedic. If you can have a job like that in a hospital surely you can do further college or such and became a physcian assistant. Follow your heart.

You don't really know until you try.

Maybe just start our with the one class that you have the most fear of, then if you pass, continue with your ambitions.

It was hellish trying to learn it though man.

There's nothing in the book that says you can't do it. Besides you don't know the stuff in the book in the first place, you're not supposed to! You go to school to learn, not absorb information you already had but get new information and ways of understanding it.

Aspieguy, I never saw a PA as much more than an EMT. And they take direction from the physician! In a way, the day to day tasks for a PA should be EASIER. With an EMT, you may really have NOBODY there to help you. ALSO, many that a PA would treat will be stable and you will have time, etc.... With an EMT, you often BETTER be on the ball! A delay of a minute or two could mean DEATH!

So if you passed the EMT training and certification, you are selling yourself short!

BTW Physicians and maybe PAs have VERY stressful training. They have to study, go to college, and work LONG hours in a hospital, etc.... So few, if ANYONE, find it easy.

You can do it

God doesn't need to hate you. You do that well enough without help.

Maybe you will graduate from a PA program and contribute your first hand knowledge of autism to the medical community. Even if you do not succeed, you might learn something about your strengths. You might take a course in computers, economics, finance, spanish or something else and along the way and discover that you are smarter than everyone else in that subject. More education will only open doors for you.

Indeed. Assess what you *can* do. And remember that you have, or are about to get, a skilled job that pays $15 an hour. It may not be what you think you want, but it's a strange way for God to hate you - allowing you to make a living, and by doing something that does matter.

I wish I was intelligent just to have compensation for all of my other flaws.

Everyone keeps saying that aspies are so intelligent and all of that. Then why did my grades in school suck so bad? Why don't I know squat about computers? Where are these supposed gifts I'm supposed to have being diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. If Bill Gates has AS, why are so many of us aspies stuck in ruts?!

You don't strike me as particularly unintelligent.

Rigid in thinking, a bit emotional, and perhaps suffering from depression, but not really unintelligent.

There are a few steps most people can take to utilize more of their intellectual potential.

1. Work at being more introspective (I think you are probably quite introspective already though). If you can identify faults, you might be able to form a plant to overcome them. For example, if you realize you are a rigid thinker, you may be able to remind yourself to make a conscious effort to seriously consider the views and ideas of others.

2. Realize that if you fail to do well in a subject, it may simple be the way the subject was presented to you. People have different learning styles.

3. Know your strengths and utilize them in compensation of your weaknesses.

4. Take critical thinking courses and listen intently to the different ideas and perceptions of others in the course. They will give you a broader picture of the universe in once sense or another.

I'm supposedly really really smart.

Ironically, there have been many times I wished I wasn't. Don't be fooled. Sometimes being smart just makes you fabulously aware of what you COULD be doing if you could deal with all the other crap that interferes.

Until I stopped wishing that I was different than I am and accepted that I am flawed (turns out everyone is flawed in some way), I made little progress in finding any sense of contentment. I've still got a long way to go, but fighting with myself over what I wish I was is a losing battle.

I've seen many many really stupid people being in top positions - take a look at politicians for start pampered spoiled children, snobs of all shapes and sizes and you're definitely above them. Those that are convinced of their "extreme" cleverness and lack humbleness, metacogniton and proper perspective are the most dangerous ones. Negative self talking will not get you anywhere however - choose your goal and stick to it.

Chemistry is interesting, joyful and if you really think it through and put your mind to it, you CAN do it. Don't waste time on the internet though - start now!

There are lots of people who could not handle/do the things that you do, and your job is a valuable one that is indeed helpful to others...When I worked in a kennel, I did not have the right amount of mental stamina or focus to go on to being a vet tech....though I had the opportunity to work on my certification while on the job.
I no longer work in that field, and at the time I was willing to learn, but it was not that I was not "intelligent" enough to become a vet tech...it was that I was on a separate mental plane that made it difficult for me to assimilate with others who were more oriented in that direction...I inadvertently broke rules and made people angry, not out of malice or stupidity, but because I was a bit clueless and people were insensitive...glad I did not route my life in that direction...

If it's true that people are stupid, then if your goal is to be successful like everyone else, why would you want to be intelligent? Seems to me that you are too intelligent for your own good.