Trying Twice as Hard As NTs

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Do you feel as an Aspie that you have to try twice as hard as NTs to be recognized by others if both of you reach the same level of achievement?

I have had to try harder, but probably not necessarily twice as hard.

Tim

I never had a problem with academics. I always felt high school and college were a joke.

Now that I have entered the world of work, I do feel I have to work harder than normal people in order to compensate for my personality type and lack of social skills.

I'm more careful around the feelings of NT people than they are around me.

Yes

It depends what you mean by try. I can do this stuff in my sleep. SOMETIMES I DO!! !! It is EASY for me, though most seem to find it hard. THEY even get promoted by talking quick, lying, etc... So I do more work, a LOT more, but it is easy. Hey, it is better than being BORED SILLY!

Perhaps not in the way that they have to try. My challenges are dealing with things that most other people find inperceptible. In that manner, reaching the same goals pose different challenges in addition to the ones everyone would face.

I don't really care much whether or not I am noticed, but I do have to try twice as hard to do easy every day things it seems.

I feel I have to be a survivor... I feel I have to put in more effort than the average or even slightly shy NT...

You wouldn't get many NT's going on a long trip to do something very emotionally precarious... but I do it anyway...

It's one thing to do it, it's another to not get knocked by it... I don't think atm I'll get too knocked if it doesn't go down the way I want it to... I'm in pretty good form atm.
But I must not underestimate the confidence swings when it sways off in the opposite direction.

As an NT it's harder to do some of the things aspies can. I'm lazy and poorly motivated so I really have to push to get anything done, while those around me seem to do it naturaly. I do have a problem with social interaction too, so even that doesn't come to me easily.

lol I'm the opposite. I found School to be hell and I find College to be razor's edge stuff. And academics depress me sometimes and kill off my self-esteem.

Yes, but the things I have to try harder in are everyday tasks that seem "easy" to others. People have remarked that I have done things that seemed difficult to them, like getting a Master's degree in English. That wasn't easy, but I was motivated.

For me not really as i was quite recognise at most places even most NT's said i was quite smart at most tings as i picked up tings very easily as for havin a good memory 4 detailed maps n paperwork which NT's would take forever.

Yes, high school and college were a ridiculously easy and I wish that I could be a grad student the rest of my days. As Mw99 says though, the "real world" of employment is much more difficult: I have to try at least 3 times as hard as an NT to get a job and it still hasn't happened yet!

I actually believe I'm going to have a better life in the 'real world' in comparison to school/college and the like.