Why do Ntypicals not want us to work?

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I notice a common re-occurring theme among a lot of Neurotypicals is that they are disgusted with aspies working professional jobs......or even just jobs.


WHY? Do they WANT to pay disability for us?

I just have noticed some of them get disgusted when they hear of an aspie doing something like Nursing...theres an aspie nurse at work

Same reason they used to get upset about African Americans or Hispanics working, it's taking jobs that should go to them because they're so obviously superior in every way. We should scrub their toilets, wash their cars, cook their hamburgers, and be damn grateful for the opportunity.

You've got it all wrong. You could have 6 eyes, horns and green scales but if you made money for them, they would love you.

This is pretty much it. They do want us to work...but not the jobs they want. "Get back to work slave!"

I'm a high functioning autistic. I am trying to learn a job at work that is below average but pushing average.....medical assistant.



I have a lot of people at work coming by and making fun of me as I try to learn this position. I WILL not work deadend jobs. I will take that stupid Neurotypicals professional job

I think in some way it is a threat to them to think that a "disabled" person can do what they are doing...in a perverse way makes them feel inferior.

As for me, I am on disability mainly because of the need for insurance as I have expensive medication for my seizure disorder and OCD, but when I can, I work under the table jobs.
My favorate one was being a organic off grid farmer for a lady who pays in food and shelter, and anything else I need while I lived there. I also worked as a dog groomer's assitant which was alot of fun. I usually love working, but right now I cant as my mom is very ill and I am taking care of her (which is a full time job, btw).

It's the general view of someone who has something "wrong" with them is seen as less of a person. This isn't specific to people with autism, but with every type of challenged state.

It's nothing personal, it's lack of factual knowledge - this makes people afraid, afraid people do stupid things.

Cheerfully,
Wallourdes

People see AS as a problem, and they don't want to be working along side someone who has a "mental problem". That's why those Jenny McCarthys don't want us in the work force.

All my bosses loved me it was the employees that I had trouble with.

Maybe some interviewers are concerned that a candidate on the spectrum may not cope with the pressure. This doesn't represent my view but i don't think that people's reasons for shunning new staff are always malicious and underhand

There are going to be piles of issues for different people - ranging from subconscious fear of catching "it" to being made uncomfortable either by perceived superior attitudes or perceived disability, to the simple fact that today's workplace emphasizes teamwork and sociability.

Case in pojnt - the VERY competent secretary I hired for our department because she was smart and reliable and efficient who others drove out because she needed an hour or so of closed door time to get certain work done with less stress.

If someone could even think beyond themselves, it would be almost miraculous. Not in the American office gardens. No way.

that sucks...my mom was like that, but she was the builiting supervisor, so she could close the door for 3 hours while she worked...however I heard that she was prone to chunking pencils at people when she got mad at them.....somethings never change. She is a chunker still.

I could never work in an office for social reasons...I like to work with my hands and my heart

Because if some "ret*d" can do their job, their job isn't special anymore. Same reason for forcing college degrees when not really necessary.

Of course they want us to work, the thought of us getting disability is just as repulsive to them.

So if an Aspie gets to be a millionaire. why is it that NT's still try to be millionaires? Surely an Aspie being one would spoil the experience?