Disaster
I was fired today for not showing up to work yesterday. I've been thinking about this for a long time. It really is hopeless for us isn't it? There's seems to be no area of life which isn't some kind of disaster for people like us. If I'm being honest, the job wasn't going anywhere and wasn't in pursuit of anything. I feel bad for not showing up though. This isn't the first time it's happened either. I expected to get fired earlier. I'm such a f*****g dimpster fire! I'm not really all that competent. At this point it's not even a question of where I'm going, but what I've done. It's all gonna cave in now. I've got my little kit, good to go, so I can move on that if I decide on it. I think I need like a day to let the impact settle. Then, it's not like I had anything going for me anyways and you know what's more, I've stopped envying other people's lives since even the best have such ridiculous lives so much of the time. If I were a NT I'd still reject the deal. It sucks even for them. The grass is greener, I can voucher for that at least in my experience, but not by so much. I pity most people these days, that's the truth. Cheers to working at Starbucks with that English degree and all that debt and cheers to staying with that man because you can't afford to live on your own. Cheers! As for me, I got everything i could get out of life and the scale has now tipped and I have no business waiting around to see what will happen to me next. I'm screwed I know that, but in more ways than one because of a ASD. So the only thing really lost, truly, is hope. Nothing real.
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There has to be some things you are skilled at. Finding skills that employers want and turning that into a job is difficult especially for an ASD person. But before you figure out if anybody wants those skills you need to figure out what they are. ASD people often make the mistake of overthinking things and then defeating themselves before they even start because the big picture is daunting. Hyperfocusing on baby steps is what we tend to do well.
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