i could use some guidance.

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Ok i am 22 years old i am a failure to launch still live with my parents and my depression just continues to grow i believe i may have aspies but duno how i should go about trying to get my parents to help.

My understanding of why i failed to launch are that one i just can't seem to bring my self to go back to a job any more yet i know i need one to get
on with my life. Two when i had a job which was 4 separate times so yes i tried but they were all in retail business type situation i either got fired for some stupid reason that the bosses who didn't like how much i knew about the business or at wal-mart for "not helping the customers" when the truth was I would maby I didn't want to lie to them or go climb the mountain of back stock to get the berried item the other reason i could not keep a job was at a gas station which involves bosses who didn't like me cause i knew every thing about that store and how to work the security system some of them were bad people apparently, or i would for some reason not really sure but just to me seemed like i was getting over whelmed there for some reason duno why and i would end up in a depressed state for a while then quit cause i don't like that.

my parents had told me once when i had went to them that they don't want me to get diagnosed or something like that cause i might use it as a crutch
that's not my purpose and the older i get the more i feel like i am getting trapped, From what i have learned i am highly likely to be but that's my own personal study of it if i can find out if i am or if i am not an aspie or any thing it might help either way it will help me better understand what i need to
do to move forward.

i just need some guidance on how to maby convince them to help me out as i am stuck and they have not really been there lately to help me if i need it.

Do you have the skills to gain employment as a computerwhiz?

yes but cant get to there without the money and its kinda dificult to prorgram in a depressed state i am having trouble even being in the mood to work on c++ and learn it

maybe tou need to go on antidepresants that will lift you out of the depression so you can focus on self employment.
As for AS, knowing this and getting diagnosed will give you some protection under the law from employers firing you based on disability related events under the ADA. Tell your parrents that.

As far as knowing too much about a store's system, just dont go down that road. Employers seem to think that if you know too much about their computer system and talk about it, then they think you are going to hack it. So keep your nose out of bosses computer systems. If you know about it, dont say anything, play stupid if you have to.

As for not climbing all the way in the back for the one thing customers need/want, you need to do it because customer serivce is very important to any retail buisness because that buisness would not be there if it were not for customers. You would probably do better working not dirrectly with customers, mant aspies find that to be the key for lasting employment.

If you had been diagnosed earlier as a kid, you would have recieved social therapy which would have averted this whole mess. If you have a diagnosis then you are elible for vocational rehabilitation full scholarship for college. So your parrents are wrong, a diagnosis would not be a cruch, but a stepping stone into employment.

so I think you should concider talking these points over with your parents.

Jojo

Why do you think you're a "failure to launch"? You shouldn't leave home until you're able, if your parents are able to support you. There's no "move out by 'x' years" requirement, is there? Given your other problems I think you should forget about that for a while unless your parents are pushing you out.

If you are an Aspie with functioning problems then I suspect (I am obviously not a psych) you would either need extensive training/therapy to work in retail or a field like that requiring social interaction (which I suspect you already know) or you need to seek employment in a field somewhat more suited to and sympathetic to Aspies, which, relatively, IT work (which I'm in) tends to be. However, if you are depressed, to the extent that you say, you probably need to address that to be able to work anywhere.

It really looks like a dependancy chain: you need to address the depression to get and keep work, you need to keep work to "launch". If you skip a step you'll be right back at your parents' house, so I would think it would be in their interest to help you get through it.

I apologise if I'm merely rehashing what you already know.

according to how i am treated by my family i should have been out by now taking care of my self, and as for knowing the security it was one of the managers who wanted me to to learn the camera system so i could help if any problems arise the first boss to higher me at the gas station i also was to learn the AC controls i was a stocker i keep the floors clean and the shelf stocked that was what i did at that gas station kinda odd as its not very big to need stock people but it dose it gets kinda busy for a small town gas station/convenience store, regardless because i knew how to work most of the equipment there except the registers of course i was a threat to the embezzlers and such

i do need into the it field that has been my dream location for as long as i can remember it being, kinda hard to do in a small town only open jobs are retail or oilfield and i hate driving, i burn easy in the sun and most sun-blocks don't help cause i tend to be a heavy sweater and it gets in my eyes then.

the only thing that i know that can help would be my parents if only they weren't trying to push me out which they are by trying to make me pay for stuff i need even though i cant seem to get the money for it.

and using it as a crutch would be disability in there terms and i know i don't need that as long as i can make it into the it field where i seem to belong.


fact is i know all of this that has been sayed the only thing is i have no idea how to expalin to my parents that i need to find out if i do have aspies or other autistic needs and such so that i can better be prepaired and know what i need to do.