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working alongside people in group work

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Currently mid-way through an assignment at Uni. Group work of 3 people (including myself) where we have a deadline for the 17th. Obviously with the Christmas break, we couldn't get any of the work done (its editing, I've been assigned editor for a re-cut) there was some issues before the Christmas period which was resolved, my part was done and the other 2 members have been assigned roles for 'Sound' & 'Graphics'. I ain't back to the 7th, but on the 3rd a member of the group msgs me to say there's an issue and it needs sorting out asap, which I say I'll get it sorted when I get back there on the 7th. He then goes on to say that i have 'very little care' for the project, that they can't keep on waiting for me to get it sorted, that he's gone ahead and done his own edit as a backup. I won't say too much about how the conversation wait, but in a way, this person makes it out that I'm the bad person who's going to cause bad grades for the assignment. I've always had issues in group work in the past, I have never been in a group with another person with Autism, so my past group members have always found it hard to understand me, accept me and make bad assumptions about me that I've done something wrong, when I try my very best to not make mistakes in my work. I've always worked better independently. Has anyone ever had similar experiences with group members? 

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  • There are 4 types of project workers - I'll illustrate with the exapmple of building a little Lego model:

    Type 1 - bash, bash straight in without direction but may accidentally build the model.

    Type 2 - flicks through the instructions and quickly & correctly builds the model.

    Type 3 - meticulously builds the model step by step

    Type 4 - takes the instructions away for a few days and will only touch the parts when they fully understand what they need to do.

    For quick projects, 1 & 2 will get great results - the enthusiasm of 1 and the control of 2 make a great team.

    For long, slow projects, 3 & 4 work well together, steady but slow.

    1&2 cannot work with 3&4 - the very best you could hope for is they don't kill each other.

    Which one do you think you are?

  • in reply to Plastic

    I'm a 2 or a 3 - depending on the complexity of the model. 

    I usually go through the instructions thoroughly first, to get an overview and to think about where complications are likely to occur.  Sometimes, this enables me to plan for those complications by doing something in the early stages that can ease the complications.  Then I do the thing, step by step.

    It's probably why I prefer to work on projects alone - although I welcome the creative or technical input of someone who's on my wavelength and maybe has more experience.

    One of the most complicated folds in Origami is the 3-dimensional Jackstone.  It takes over an hour of patient work to complete.  There's one point where you are required to completely open out the model until it's a flat piece of paper again, then make some additional folds, then kind of push it all together until it starts to fall into shape.  I fell down at this stage several times.  But that enabled me to see where I could make it easier by putting in some of those additional folds earlier on.

    As Edison said: 'I've not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that didn't work.'

    I've also learned to be dogged and have faith in myself.  If I'm good at something - I know it's good.  If someone else disagrees with me, I'll take their point.  But oftentimes, I'll just think they haven't grasped the full extent of what I'm trying to do.  That may sound like arrogance - but not everyone shares the same vision.  I once wrote a short story that won a prize in a competition - but one of the judges took issue with one of the characters, saying that the character served no real narrative function... not even a symbolic one.  That character was one of the most important characters in the story!  She simply missed the point.  Even 'experts' don't know everything, and can be wrong.

    Witness the autism 'experts' at my place of work, who have had to learn from my example how a high-functioning autistic person behaves, responds and processes information.

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  • in reply to Plastic

    I'm a 2 or a 3 - depending on the complexity of the model. 

    I usually go through the instructions thoroughly first, to get an overview and to think about where complications are likely to occur.  Sometimes, this enables me to plan for those complications by doing something in the early stages that can ease the complications.  Then I do the thing, step by step.

    It's probably why I prefer to work on projects alone - although I welcome the creative or technical input of someone who's on my wavelength and maybe has more experience.

    One of the most complicated folds in Origami is the 3-dimensional Jackstone.  It takes over an hour of patient work to complete.  There's one point where you are required to completely open out the model until it's a flat piece of paper again, then make some additional folds, then kind of push it all together until it starts to fall into shape.  I fell down at this stage several times.  But that enabled me to see where I could make it easier by putting in some of those additional folds earlier on.

    As Edison said: 'I've not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that didn't work.'

    I've also learned to be dogged and have faith in myself.  If I'm good at something - I know it's good.  If someone else disagrees with me, I'll take their point.  But oftentimes, I'll just think they haven't grasped the full extent of what I'm trying to do.  That may sound like arrogance - but not everyone shares the same vision.  I once wrote a short story that won a prize in a competition - but one of the judges took issue with one of the characters, saying that the character served no real narrative function... not even a symbolic one.  That character was one of the most important characters in the story!  She simply missed the point.  Even 'experts' don't know everything, and can be wrong.

    Witness the autism 'experts' at my place of work, who have had to learn from my example how a high-functioning autistic person behaves, responds and processes information.

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