My Little Corollary

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It is ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE to live a happy and rewarding life nearly completely devoid of social interaction. In fact, judging by my observation of the severe dysfunction in the world, you may be better off.

It's difficult but not impossible to find a job in which you don't have to interact with others, but it's not necessarily as much of an issue in the workplace because when people's livelihoods are at stake they are much more tolerant of your shortcomings, so long as you don't do anything "inappropriate" and are able to work efficiently.

If you want to live as a loner, that's YOUR PERSONAL CHOICE and it's to be respected.

Neurotypical people may think we need "help" if we think this way because they can't understand that certain social needs they have, considered "normal," are just not a part of us.

I work efficiently but apparently do inappropriate things. My evidence is that I kept getting fired after a couple of weeks and no one would tell me what I did wrong. I would stop doing those inappropriate things, but I don't even know what they are.



I do need help -- well-trained professional help -- in order to understand what has made me so unemployable all my life so that I can move on to having a more successful life. Unfortunately, that help is not available to me because I'm not a child and not wealthy enough to pay privately for the well-trained professionals who do not take my government-issued health insurance as payment. It's not even about my social needs, it's about basic survival needs of sufficient income to live a healthy and fulfilled life. I *do* want to live as a loner and it's much easier to arrange the kind of life I want if I have sufficient income to support things like a small house with a tall privacy fence so I can actually go outside without being harassed by others.

We're all different of course... but it seems like you pretty much agree with me... you don't need help because you want social interaction, you need it so you can learn how to be a member of the working world. I have had jobs that didn't work out mainly because I have trouble understanding instruction and I take things so literally. Back in the day I did say and do some "inappropriate" things, and one time it cost me my job. I've just managed to discern them and learn what they are, maybe you haven't, it certainly doesn't make you unintelligent... I feel bad for you though

Of course it doesn't make me unintelligent. I'm autistic, duh. It makes me mindblind. That's probably the most disabling aspect of my autism.