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Recently Diagnosed

CinnamonAlien

Good afternoon All,

I was recently diagnosed at the age of 28, although this was a validating experience which answered so many questions, I feel this is the beginning of my journey of understanding.

I've never reached out l, but I thought it would be great to try make friends. A little bit about me , I'm lucky enough to work in mental health in a remote position . My special interest includes transfer within the football world, I spend hours on football manager exploring niche countries. I found out I'm 5% Finnish so been obsessed exploring Finland further. I've been enjoying WWE now it's on netflix. I enjoy reading philosophy and poetry although I neglect this . I wrote a poem which in hindsight, reflected my autism journey 

I want to bury 

What my mind unpacks

Hoping one day 

You'll find my treasure map.

I'm wondering what employment has been good for others? It's such a struggle and I'd love to hear your stories and also to inspire me to consider new career paths. I've dreamed of intelligence analyst, maybe financial crime ? But I value working remotely so much! Love to hear your thoughts .

I'm wondering what people do in their spare time and how they manage this ? I wish to be more productive, but if I'm not at work I'm decompressing and the cycle continues. Maybe we could share poems or ideas and create a project together!

Just a little introduction and my way to say Hi to this community. I look forward to any responses and any relationships which could be formed .

Take care all,!

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  • Hi and welcome to the community! I had quite many interests in my past. Now I’m tired of everything but still feeling joy when I see or hear anything about aliens, space, ancient aliens etc. I work in a warehouse of a hardware store and I like my job, my colleagues, and my job does not damage me mentally like the previous ones where I was a customer service assistant and had to make a lot of small talk and eye contact and doesn’t matter how hard I tried it was always wrong and I was never good enough. I’m underemployed I believe, my peers after graduation found good jobs on high posts only I can’t. Autistic traits and my issues with communication, interactions, eye contact etc explain perfectly why I never managed to get a better job with higher salary. People wonder why I do the lowest wage jobs while speaking 3 foreign languages fluently (English, Russian, German) having good pc skills AutoCAD photoshop and ms office. I often hear that I could just make a driver license and make a good career. No, I know it doesn’t look like… but I can’t. I can’t drive a car due to sensory issues and my attention going too strong to details (if I concentrate on lights and signs I may not notice a pedestrian and hit them). And all this is basically too much for me. I’m not diagnosed, suspected autistic. This forum is the only space where I feel comfortable. I appreciate what and whom I have in my life. And my low salary job, which I like and often fear loosing it. 

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  • Hi and welcome to the community! I had quite many interests in my past. Now I’m tired of everything but still feeling joy when I see or hear anything about aliens, space, ancient aliens etc. I work in a warehouse of a hardware store and I like my job, my colleagues, and my job does not damage me mentally like the previous ones where I was a customer service assistant and had to make a lot of small talk and eye contact and doesn’t matter how hard I tried it was always wrong and I was never good enough. I’m underemployed I believe, my peers after graduation found good jobs on high posts only I can’t. Autistic traits and my issues with communication, interactions, eye contact etc explain perfectly why I never managed to get a better job with higher salary. People wonder why I do the lowest wage jobs while speaking 3 foreign languages fluently (English, Russian, German) having good pc skills AutoCAD photoshop and ms office. I often hear that I could just make a driver license and make a good career. No, I know it doesn’t look like… but I can’t. I can’t drive a car due to sensory issues and my attention going too strong to details (if I concentrate on lights and signs I may not notice a pedestrian and hit them). And all this is basically too much for me. I’m not diagnosed, suspected autistic. This forum is the only space where I feel comfortable. I appreciate what and whom I have in my life. And my low salary job, which I like and often fear loosing it. 

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