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Interview skills /eye contact at interviews

Yup, definitely Autistic!

Hi,

I struggle a lot with anxiety during interviews* to the point of crying and being unable to make any eye contact at all. 

It's limiting my opportunities in life and I'd like to get to grips with it. I've read up on general interview/presentation skills  online, but wondered if anyone here has found some useful 'hacks'?

* GP and dental appts. too. Seems to be any situation where I really need or want something. 

Many thanks

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  • Many, many years ago , and decades before I was diagnosed, I had a mock interview session with an occupational psychologist, behind one of those two way mirrors. I was told that I was not making eye contact, as well as exhibiting several other traits which I now know were because I am autistic. 

    A few years later, I was subjected to the same punishment.  Having adapted to the no eye contact thing, I was told I was staring.  I can make eye contact but it isnt genuine. I look through and beyond, I dont see their eyes at all.

    Many experts nowadays believe this eye contact thing as an indicator of truth is false, and someone making eye contact is more likely to be telling fibs. But this doesnt seem to have got to the job interviewers yet.

  • in reply to Trainspotter

    Yes, I wonder about how evidence based eye contact = truth really is too. 

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