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23 May 2018, 6:33 am

Perserverence, focus and a high tolerance for pain for both physical and emotional pain.

All of those attributes allowed me to keep going in life despite being fired 9 times from my jobs, suspended 3 times and quit more than 30 jobs to avoid being fired. In total, I've had almost 40 jobs in life. Somebody should really underline that part about "severe social deficits" when describing Autistic people because that's always been my greatest problem in life - talking to and relating to my co-workers.

I expect I'll go insane if I have lose anymore jobs...


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23 May 2018, 10:52 am

xatrix26 wrote:
Perserverence, focus and a high tolerance for pain for both physical and emotional pain.

All of those attributes allowed me to keep going in life despite being fired 9 times from my jobs, suspended 3 times and quit more than 30 jobs to avoid being fired. In total, I've had almost 40 jobs in life. Somebody should really underline that part about "severe social deficits" when describing Autistic people because that's always been my greatest problem in life - talking to and relating to my co-workers.

I expect I'll go insane if I have lose anymore jobs...


What happened? Why were you fired?


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23 May 2018, 10:33 pm

RainbowUnion wrote:
xatrix26 wrote:
Perserverence, focus and a high tolerance for pain for both physical and emotional pain.

All of those attributes allowed me to keep going in life despite being fired 9 times from my jobs, suspended 3 times and quit more than 30 jobs to avoid being fired. In total, I've had almost 40 jobs in life. Somebody should really underline that part about "severe social deficits" when describing Autistic people because that's always been my greatest problem in life - talking to and relating to my co-workers.

I expect I'll go insane if I have lose anymore jobs...


What happened? Why were you fired?


1. Bullying or coworkers making fun of me was always the number one issue for me getting fired I would lose my temper and that would be it
2. If my routines or surroundings changed too much I would again lose my temper and get angry and get fired
3. If I didn't have enough shut down time after speaking to someone at length then I would become emotionally distraught and lose my temper and get fired again
4. Emotional distress has always been my greatest enemy in the workplace


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25 May 2018, 8:16 pm

xatrix26 wrote:
RainbowUnion wrote:
xatrix26 wrote:
Perserverence, focus and a high tolerance for pain for both physical and emotional pain.

All of those attributes allowed me to keep going in life despite being fired 9 times from my jobs, suspended 3 times and quit more than 30 jobs to avoid being fired. In total, I've had almost 40 jobs in life. Somebody should really underline that part about "severe social deficits" when describing Autistic people because that's always been my greatest problem in life - talking to and relating to my co-workers.

I expect I'll go insane if I have lose anymore jobs...


What happened? Why were you fired?


1. Bullying or coworkers making fun of me was always the number one issue for me getting fired I would lose my temper and that would be it
2. If my routines or surroundings changed too much I would again lose my temper and get angry and get fired
3. If I didn't have enough shut down time after speaking to someone at length then I would become emotionally distraught and lose my temper and get fired again
4. Emotional distress has always been my greatest enemy in the workplace


I hear you. My rage is like a monster that I have to keep carefully locked up. If he got out it would be a huge meltdown and I'd be fired for sure.


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