The Asperger Syndrome Workplace Survial Guide

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For those of you who are struggling with work and you don't know why, get online if you can and get an entire free catalogue called Jessica Kingsley Publishers. In this catalogue there are books that will help you figure out:

How your disability affects you in the workplace

Tips and strategies for getting around it



Just.........just get your hands on these books however you can.....The title of this thread is the book I am reading right now!! !


Aspies of the world unite!! !

Thanks! I just ordered that book.

Don't forget to go to your local library for those kinds of books.

I read "Aspergers on The Job" by Rudy Simone, which is a great book.

Books that are not in my native tongue are a bit hard to get in the Netherlands, unless you go to a distant very big library or unless you order them at an international webshop like Amazon.com.

Thanks.

I've been struggling to find helpful information about career development for Aspies for a while. This looks like a great resource.

I have been reading the first few pages of this book, and I have a very good impression about it. There are really useful tips and recommendations in it.

Some of the tips are about introduction (when you start working at a company, and your boss introduces you to other colleagues, whom you will be working with), about smalltalk, about giving suggestions about procedures (how are things generally done at a specific company).

About work relationships, I truly enjoy them. I like making jokes from time to time with other colleagues, and so are they: making jokes with me. Some vice-bosses (colleagues that are temporary bosses when the "real" boss is absent for whatever reason) told me, I am a very popular colleague, giving colour during working together and during breaks. They also say: "Days, are significantly duller, when you are not around," which is good to hear.

About suggestions about procedures, I don't reject or condemn existing procedures, but I politely tell my boss about my ideas, giving her room to accept it or reject it. She will always give a reason why she wouldn't agree. I don't come with suggestions each day, but only - let's say once per 2 or 3 weeks, or even less - when I see a serious flaw which she might see as well.

I have a very good interpersonal relationship with my boss. She knows how I am and is very familiar with autism. She knows about my limitations and possibilities. She is new to management, but she is doing great, and I will tell that to her at the next appraisal talk. Although I will be the one to be judged, she will also ask me, what I honestly think of her.

Glad I could help.

About criticizing, I sometimes have criticism towards other colleagues.

Today I have a good example. A colleague came to me with a pile of paper and asked me to divide it into sets and then staple them. I have to sort them first and then staple them. I refused. I told her there is a faster way, even from scratch. I asked for the originals and then programmed the copying machine which can copy and sort faster than I myself can. And so the job was done fast.

About asking for the bigger picture in which the tasks I had to do. I did the tasks without asking and I didn't learn a thing. Knowing the bigger picture will help me to prioritize the tasks, but colleagues weren't supposed to communicate anything about the bigger picture, I even wasn't supposed to be communicated with, I was autistic, wasn't I? And autistics had communication deficits, right?

At the beginning fo this new school year, I told my boss that I want to do the prioritizing myself, and then evaluate how it goes. She agrees. From about hundred tasks I performed in the past, about 5 crossed the deadline (whose fault wasn't mine) and aborted 2 tasks myself (also without my fault). None of the tasks delays and abortions were my fault. So I can say that none went wrong, that would be due to me.