Hello,
I am a 25yr old male with AS. I thought I would share what I learned up to this point. My life has not easy for me and my parents. It gets better with each day now that I have learned a lot about myself. I have some trouble socializing but try to make the best of it as much as I can. I find as I grow older, the more easier it is for me to socialize and try to make business relations. I do admit it took me some jobs in order to find the right one. Even that one failed.
I drove a truck for a local company and things went well for the first yr and four months. My boss said I could not use my disability as an excuse. People with AS tend to do things slow and steady and I tried explaining to him. He said he was going to retrain me. I said ok thinking he would be patient, nice and encvourage me to do better. Instead he got up in my face and made a smart comment on how I only lasted 20min. My dad is my right hand man and I expalined how for the past couple months this guy has made me feel like nothing. I turned in my stuff the next day.
I did go to my customers that I served and surprisingly enough, they were quite supportive and very nice. When I asked for references, they said absoultely. In the end, I achieved my goal of making a difference in someones life as my old customers said they were going to miss me. I still keep in touch with them as you can never go wrong with networking.
KH
08 Feb 2013, 8:57 pm
