aspiemike wrote:
All I feel right now is pretty much this. Aside from my family... f**k everyone else.
So I suffered a concussion last Tuesday which forces me to stay home from work for a few days. Not something I wanted to hear or have happen. I am supposed to return to work in a few hours and I can't even sleep. Go figure. Symptoms have mainly been me sleeping on and off for the course of the last few days and the occasional headache and dizziness, and I am feeling like my old Aspie self rather than this happier version of me. All this effort I make with friends to be there and show I care and hang out. I did get an invite to go to a movie the day the concussion happens, but I have to decline because of that injury. I hear from a mutual friend who asks about it, but that is it. I say something to a few other people, and it appears I get nothing but people asking if I am ok.
Of course, I have NOONE checking up on me and asking if I am ok. NOONE AT ALL. so yeah, that being said, f**k it. Why bother making an effort when people can't be bothered to see if I am feeling ok? I'm sure everyone is going to give me the "Everyone is busy with their own lives" spiel, but I understand that. Not even a minute to send me a text message is kinda hurtful.
I understand your frustration. Last time I had a concussion, I was involved in an automobile wreck. I was still working for Naval Research and Development--Division Detachment Warminster, PA, and was commuting from York, PA to Warminster (Which is north of Philadelphia), before I found an apartment in Northeast Philadelphia. I was headed back home to York, and was 6 blocks from my mother's house. I had stopped at a stop sign on East Market St (the main thorofare through the city, AKA PA Route 462, or to us old timers from York, the old Lincoln Highway, AKA US Route 30, before the Commonwealth of PA built the bypass.). I briefly released the brake to make a right hand turn, when traffic suddenly got heavy. I put my foot on the brake. Unfortunately, my brake lights manage mo malfunction at the time. I was at a full stop, but I still had a Wrecker tow truck slam into my rear end. This is something you don't want especially, when you are driving a Geo Metro (remember those pieces of garbage?). Even though I was 100% in the right, my employer nearly fired me for causing the accident, saying it was my fault that I was too tired to even be driving. EXCUSE ME???????? First, it was still some daylight left(since it was only 6:30 PM) and second, I was at a full stop. Even though the police report showed I was at a full stop, and the driver of the tow truck admitted guilt, and I provided my boss with all the required medical reports showing that I was legitimately injured, he still wanted to fire my arse for being a careless driver.
I did find out later this boss, who also owned the company I was working for on the contract for the Navy, was a real slimeball. Thank God I don't have a reason to be in Rockford, MD, which is where this guy lives, because if I ever saw him on the street in downtown Rockford, I just my park my car, meet up with him, and pound the living daylights out of him. I'm not a violent person, and you really have to push my buttons to hack me off. This guy also had the gall to ask me to teach his son how to play bass clarinet FOR FREE. This all happened long before I was diagnosed as an Aspie, with bipolar I and General Anxiety Disorder.
15 Jul 2013, 12:51 am
