Losing My Job

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Well, I just found out last week that I will be losing my job. Apparently they don't think that I have the flexibility or speed of processing to work in my current position at an acute care hospital, and that I am just not developing the clinical skills that I should be (I am a speech pathologist). During the meeting, my supervisors heavily hinted that maybe I have some kind of learning problem that I didn't disclose, so I 'fessed up about the nonverbal learning disability (I am NLD, not AS). Yeah, they were completely not surprised apparently. And here I thought I was compensating so well that no one could tell.

Then, this past weekend, I was talking to someone from my last job and told her what had happened, and she said that several people from my last job had also wondered if I had a learning disability (no one told me at the time). So fantastic. Apparently it's blatantly obvious to other people.

The best bit is that my supervisors recommended that I go talk to the employee mental health people at the hospital for some assistance, so I did. I explained the situation to the psychologist there, hoping, he could help me brainstorm ideas about what type of job might be more suitable, but he decided, on the basis of talking with me for 20 minutes, that I don't have a learning disability after all ("How could you get a Master's degree if you have these problems?"), but rather that all of my problems are caused by anxiety. All right then.

So it's been a kind of messed up week. I know many people on here have had trouble with employment. Any insights?

Your post reminds me of the story of my life, thinking that I am fitting in, only to discover that everyone thinks that I am strange.

It looks like they just want to get rid of you, for no apparent reasons, just like NTs on a job site would want to do to anybody, who's different.

aww, that sucks man. i hope you find another job

I was fired from my Medical Assistant position because I was not a team player, I could not multi task or keep up with my work load. I was very stressed trying so hard to do what seemed so easy for everyone else. It made me glad I didnt go to nursing school....still it makes me sad that I could not do what I really wanted. I went into Phlebotomy for years but after having my daughter diagnosed and I was having such a hard time with the anxiety of working in an office (I should have stayed in the hospital or mobile, changed for the better hours) that I had to quit. Then I was diagnosed with Asperger's.
Im sorry this is happening to you, I can empathize with how you feel.

I'm sorry

It completely sucks when work and problems get involved with each other.

That really sucks, so sorry

Ah! Such a familiar tale. Not a team player, regarded as weird or strange by the other folk you work with, heard it all the time for nearly thirty years. If your qualifications allow it then consider going self employed and being your own boss, that way nobody can fire you. For the last ten years of my working life I was an I.T. contractor and I had a great time because once folk cottoned on to the fact that I was a bit different I just moved on to the next contract.

If they don't want you then just walk away, you're just a number on an Excel spreadsheet and nothing more.

Vanilla_Slice

P.S. Been given the push three times and the last one didn't hurt a bit.

Are you doing your job fairly well OP I kinda got the impression that they want to get rid of you simply because they suspected that you have learning problems witch sounds like discrimination to me if you have been doing your job well & if that's the case it mite be worth talking to a lawyer.

Thanks very much for the support, guys.
nick007, I think they really do have some concerns that I can do my job properly. I'm thinking of considering another field- one that doesn't rely so much on multi-tasking, flexibility, and speeded processing.

I would probably still be at my old job if the machines did not make me nervous or when I operated them I was slow at it.

I am sorry to read about this, and I have many of the same problems at work. I actually developed a major anxiety disorder because i had to put so much mental effort into performng at a speed which would please an employer. I hope things work themselves out, anyway...