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Aspergers syndrom is a curse

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Aspergers is a curse. These are the unfortunate people who find they are different from the usual person found everywhere. Aspergers people cannot fit in with normal society. For that reason, they are excluded from being with friends and peers from an early age. They are unable to develop socially like their peers, so get left further behind. The inability to fit in and the differentness is made worse by the time they become adults. Many parents are simply embarassed having that child who is 'different', cannot do sports as others, comes across as weird. Besides with their mannerisms, their approaches to things, the way they speak in their monotone voice just annoys everyone else. With other handicaps - a person in a wheelchair can be accepted. A person with mental impairments lives with similar others in their colonies. An aspie cannot be recognized in the same way. Appears as normal till things start becoming apparrent.  He or she is not ill enough to qualify for disability allowances nor PIP. Morever the people who determine these, will never recognize an aspie and their needs purely because they are not in it. We talk about some high value people or stars being aspies, but statistically the typical aspie is most likely to be unemployed, living on their own and few friends. They maybe tried having a partner, but that failed. The partner soon realizes what they are yoked with and dump them.  Coming to job  interviews, their differentness is soon apparrent, they are deemed not to fit in the company, so do not get the job. Psychometric tests also detect aspies because the tests have questions which fish out the traits that aspies have like being loyal, preferring to work on their own, being organized, truth speaking.The tests fish out the things that an aspie cannot do and conclude that the person is not fit for the job based on abilities like being able to work under pressure or multi-task.

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  • I can relate to what you have written. It's sad, but it's true in many ways.

  • in reply to ☕Tassimo ☕

    Work is the one killer for us. The environment isn't designed for innovation; rather conformity.

    Also, because we made an effort in school, we were pushed from pillar to post by Teachers, Lecturers and other Students who are cute as foxes.

  • in reply to Desmond79
    Desmond79 said:
    The environment isn't designed for innovation;

    Most are not designed for productivity either, too much of an emphasis on the 'social' aspect, in my last job I could not believe how much work time was spent on 'socialising' rather than actually doing the work.

    Seeing colleagues say they were going to speak to another colleague about a client and it turning into a 1.5 hour gossip fest (with about 10 minutes actually spent on the client issue) then the last 5 minutes of that reiterating what they'd discussed about the client at the beginning to make it look like they'd been discussing the client that whole time! 

    What a complete waste of work time, if you were to count this up over the week it easily reached an eight hour work day lost, this is why the 4 day working week needs to be pushed, you hear comments about how it makes people more productive in other countries, my theory on that is they'll think 'right, I better do what it is I'm getting paid for as I've only got 4 days' and save their socialising for later, you see it when someone's Annual Leave is coming up, total focus on the job for about 3 days prior!

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  • in reply to Desmond79
    Desmond79 said:
    The environment isn't designed for innovation;

    Most are not designed for productivity either, too much of an emphasis on the 'social' aspect, in my last job I could not believe how much work time was spent on 'socialising' rather than actually doing the work.

    Seeing colleagues say they were going to speak to another colleague about a client and it turning into a 1.5 hour gossip fest (with about 10 minutes actually spent on the client issue) then the last 5 minutes of that reiterating what they'd discussed about the client at the beginning to make it look like they'd been discussing the client that whole time! 

    What a complete waste of work time, if you were to count this up over the week it easily reached an eight hour work day lost, this is why the 4 day working week needs to be pushed, you hear comments about how it makes people more productive in other countries, my theory on that is they'll think 'right, I better do what it is I'm getting paid for as I've only got 4 days' and save their socialising for later, you see it when someone's Annual Leave is coming up, total focus on the job for about 3 days prior!

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