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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I've overcome the odds and gotten a job, and I'm miserable. |
| Billw1628 |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2014, 2:08 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,630
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| Take it slow. Don't rush things. I personally learned from my own experience. 3 days a week was what I started out with. A month later, then it became 4. Since there were some days I was absent after that, then some weeks had 5. That was not the way to go for me. It was then I realized I got to regr... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Help me make a friend!! ! |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2014, 12:55 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 705
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| A traumatic experience like that is always hard to recover from. I have a lot more success in building online friends and these friendships carry on to my real life when I do meet them in person. My tip to you is- If you are not sure of a person, either bring someone to meet with him/her, or you can... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Good jobs...not so good jobs for aspies |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2014, 10:12 pm
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Replies: 45
Views: 20,990
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| Occupational therapy can be good/bad for an aspie. The good- if you are willing to reach out to people, you will have awesome support, especially if you have trouble in the workplace. You can get help from people outside your work. Also, job security is pretty good. The bad- You might know your dail... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I just want to go to college |
| Billw1628 |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2014, 10:07 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 804
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| agree... what do you mean by that? This is a time that you got to tell your story. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How do you start new friendships? |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2014, 10:05 pm
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Replies: 1
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| For me, I often use social media as a means to truly get to know a person. Then, if you know that you and the other person you know online are going to the same thing, arrange a meet up just between you and him/her (and perhaps with some of his/her friends if you are comfortable). I did this tons of... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: A snippet of my college life. |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2014, 3:29 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 869
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| You do raise a really good point. I feel like sometimes I really have to speak out. I am outspoken I am that type on social media too sometimes. I have learned to tone it down because I am also a health professional now. Potential employers see my social media profiles, so do my peers. So do potent... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Any Aspie Psychologists out There? |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2014, 1:59 pm
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Replies: 27
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| The most famous one I know is Dr. Michael McManmon. He is the founder of College Internship Program in the US. I presented with him before and he said that he has a psychology background in my presentation. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: A snippet of my college life. |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2014, 1:45 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 869
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| Hello, I want to share a part of what last semester was like for me. My sociology class. I talk about this with my friends because of what I discovered. Within the first couple weeks I discovered the majority of my class were immature and were always not considering any possibility that I might jus... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does having facebook help wth getting social skills? |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2014, 1:30 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,559
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| I personally think that Facebook hurts, rather than helps, social skills. It promotes a very false and superficial form of socialization, and almost discourages actually interacting with other people. I agree with that actually. I initially thought , when I signed up. that it would be a good way to... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Update (complaining about my situation) |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2014, 12:18 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 759
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| Well... here's an outside the box idea. Try occupational therapy. I heard quite a bit of NT peers came from the psychology background. They have transitioned very well because they have an edge in their knowledge of mental health already. You can try a COTA program first and then go into a bridge p... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does having facebook help wth getting social skills? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2014, 10:41 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,559
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| I personally think that Facebook hurts, rather than helps, social skills. It promotes a very false and superficial form of socialization, and almost discourages actually interacting with other people. I disagree with that. I reunited with my former OT classmate today whom I have connected on Facebo... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: is there a list of social guidelines? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2014, 5:36 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,985
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| Usually when someone is making a social error, it is inappropriate in the particular context and setting. Therefore, social rules can vary a little based on who the people are with, what is being discussed and where they are. It's hard to make a list of general rules when there is so many infinite ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: is there a list of social guidelines? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2014, 5:29 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,985
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| Usually when someone is making a social error, it is inappropriate in the particular context and setting. Therefore, social rules can vary a little based on who the people are with, what is being discussed and where they are. It's hard to make a list of general rules when there is so many infinite ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does having facebook help wth getting social skills? |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2014, 4:47 pm
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Replies: 19
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| Yes. On top of that, you don't want to act too different than when you are on Facebook, either, particularly if you have a good reputation on it. If you act quite different when you are offline, sometimes that person might rat it off to the people who know you online that he/she knows... and the rum... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Update (complaining about my situation) |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2014, 3:46 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Well... here's an outside the box idea. Try occupational therapy. I heard quite a bit of NT peers came from the psychology background. They have transitioned very well because they have an edge in their knowledge of mental health already. You can try a COTA program first and then go into a bridge pr... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Having no social life makes it difficult to make new friends |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2014, 3:34 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,951
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| Mine can be considered pretty boring, too. Most of what I do are considered solitary activities- social media, blogging, etc. I wish I can go out more. But because I have more important expenses, I can't do much unless it is during the times of the year that I can (in form of professional networking... |
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