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I just realized how I managed to succeed in the workplace (until I collapsed from the strain of pretending to be NT) - shorthand. I learned it in high school. You know how aspies have trouble multi-tasking? by which I think they mean getting a whole bunch of directions about different things at the same time. Well, shorthand is the answer. I never went anywhere on the job with pen & paper, and I wrote down everything anybody said re work. I see now that I didn't understand any of it then, but later, when I sat down with a shorthand transcript of what the boss had said, I could figure it out. I was as fast as the others and my work was high quality.

For whatever it may be worth, hope it helps somebody.

Neat!

Or you could just blackmail your boss.

Never been able to do shorthand but I've been carrying a small notebook and pen around with me for years.

Ed Almos

Well, I guess I am lucky I got a job that is mostly somewhat logical and am often left much to my own. If someone tells me what they want, I can find problems, and it is easy to break down into a concept that I can then revive in a detailed way. The lowest level details often require that kind of thought, and are left up to me, anyway.

Steve