Quiz time

I developed a series of innocuous looking quiz-like questions I use on new people around me to probe them for any potential commonalities. One of them is:

If you had means, and will to swap places with someone. All conditions for it to happen met.

What is your favourite character from books you would like to be? And why?

My is R. Daneel Olivaw, robot from Asimov's Fundation series. He is the true ruler of mankind, immortal, nobody knows he exists, so he is safe from people. Those, who suspect someone like him might exist, are clueless about where he might live.

Parents
  • I mostly read non fiction books so dont really have a favourite fictional book character

    For film and TV charchters, Sam Tyler in Life on Mars is the main one, that feeling of landing in an alien world you dont belong in or understand but trying to feel alive and feel things, that I really identify with

    I once was asked in a job interview which film characther I most identified with and I said Will Smith in I robot, because he thought differently to everyone else and he could see whats coming and no one would believe him but he was proved right. I didnt get the job

  • I did once disclose during interview that I enjoy playing Warhammer Battle, and I didn't get a job

  • This, I find, is a universal problem with NT people: their arbitrariness & their self-righteousness. You can bet that if the interviewer happened to be a Warhammer player, then not only would they miraculously cease to find your hobby 'strange'  but, also, you'd likely have got the job. So, a ridiculous fluke of common interest - or its absence - shapes a career and a life. Such arbitrary unprofessionalism would not be tolerated in an autistic person.

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  • This, I find, is a universal problem with NT people: their arbitrariness & their self-righteousness. You can bet that if the interviewer happened to be a Warhammer player, then not only would they miraculously cease to find your hobby 'strange'  but, also, you'd likely have got the job. So, a ridiculous fluke of common interest - or its absence - shapes a career and a life. Such arbitrary unprofessionalism would not be tolerated in an autistic person.

Children
  • But it might help you if you're lucky. One of my friends got a job as a railway engineer because he looked like one of them, one of bearded, tattooed motorcycle riders. I'm happy for him. 

    It might be my only chance of getting a job, to be lucky like that