Hi, I am a graduate with Asperger's and I have been struggling to discover to discover what my skills are?
Any advice?
Hi, I am a graduate with Asperger's and I have been struggling to discover to discover what my skills are?
Any advice?
Hi,
A bit difficult question to answer, you can develop skills. You've posted a message on this forum, so you have some computer skill. My skills have developed from obsessional interests mainly, I got in to computers just as the micro-computer as it was known then (desktop pc now) was starting to grow after the hobbyist phase.
I guess if you have a competitve nature, that can help to develop skills. I was very uninterested in education, but did reasonably well to pass my exams. I never really related to it. I think about the only subject I enjoyed, was A level computer science, but that was my interest as well.
I was good at maths, but not really interested in it; That was until, I got in to 3D graphics, and researched all the maths related to that, it really is a thing of beauty; modelling how light interacts with physical objects. That lead on to an interest in fractals, combing the two, it is amazing how you can model things with practically endless detail.
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Hi Lanqui
Just noticed this post so sorry the reply is very much later than it should have been.
What did you graduate in? And then what did you enjoy most, what did you score most highly in? What were your tutor's positive comments to your assignments? This should give you some ideas.
This is the trouble with vague non-leading questions, but interviews are full of them to the detriment of those with an asd and I for one do not know what to say. Like "Tell me about yourself", to me it just brings another question "What do you want to know".
A better way round the "what are your strengths and weaknesses" would be to think of the job and look at the job description and see which part of the job really appeals to you - that is your strength. But bear in mind that the writers of job descriptions seem to write in verbose terms and make even the simplest tasks seem hard. The job description usually needs translating into plain English first!