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I'm browsing the internet following another job outage that I thought was really going to work out,
still don't know if it was temporary to cover for another employee, or I 'didn't fit in' to their corporate ideal.
They just plain wouldn't say. I know what I was doing and supposed to be doing, and yet it just ended up on the 30 day mark they handed me a termination form (not pink, as the cliche goes.. ) Another Failure To Fit In. Despite my efforts to Fit In.

I ponder things a lot between diversions of my attention. I'm 14 years out of college and still renting, alone (if 2 cats don't count) but not isolated, actually I think most of my closer friends are a bit on the 'I adapted the best I can to this society, but dang if I can figure out what normal is'..

Some backhistory to play with both of our heads; Parents both 39 when I showed up, social problems in school, (one expulsion from a private school, a repeat of a grade, and an era when corporal punishment was permissable in schools, quite a few waps for being disruptive).. Again, I got better..

Had a few specialists try to probe my noggin in the past when I was a wee lad, I can remember at least a EEG test at a specialist in Roanoake VA, psychologist visits, special classes in junior high (um, 7th and 8th grade, akin to 'middle school') and high school, where after high school it just went straight to a regular college where I managed to promptly flunk out my first semester.

I've done better since then, graduated barely from a more local college, bolstered by having a circle of friends who consider me well, strange but normal enough.

Over time, I've wondered just what those docs ever came up with to explain me behaviour.
And whether I should have been 'treated' further than high school?

Nobody's told me what they (the docs) thought. Guess I should look into that, eh? How long do those folks keep records?

Back to the title of the post. Without official DX, as the shorthand here goes, does this epic tale sound like the sort of thing that fits into.. um, what was the problem?

I cope with humor and surreality. I can handle social interactions like working at call centers, although that usually gets me in conflict since I resist dedicating a work shift to not using my individuality, but conform especially when it means employment or not.

I've had a lot, too many, of what I call 'warm body' jobs, where the primary requirements for hiring is not having outstanding warrants and/or showing up for work on a regular basis. Other than external factors, my varied job history has mostly had me ousted for a rules violation more than a failure to perform..

Well. I think at some point I'm supposed to stop and let all that verbage set in. Basically I've not really considered it a actual medical phenomenon, rather Typical Lazy Adolescent Syndrome. Or that my earlier problems were 'gone away' yet there's still a level of social awkwardness that at some point I should have learned to overcome, like learning html.. maybe Life Isn't So Simple As That..

But, I wandered here for the similarities to my autobiography. A few external factors that have to be put in the math, but that's another topic. Really, I swear I don't go this longly on messages normally..

So if I guess right, what do I win?

Charlie

Hi Charlie

I saw on a post here an amateur diagnosis on the basis of whether you brush your teeth.

Do you?

Welcome to WP.

Hi Charlie, I'm Mark.

Your story sounds a lot like mine. Imagine that.

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Yep, new here, as I'm not sure if that was serious or not. I don't NOT brush my teeth, but forget to often.
I'll have a busy day at the dentist if I ever get back to them.. all that mountain dew ain't helping either.

Sorry O-W-A, I likes the garlic, but 1337-speek is after my time of language development.

I'll stick with My Buddy Buddha, thankee.

Hi and welcome to WP

We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Woz!

Welcome.

Welcome to WP!

3 out 4 dentists agree?

I thought I'd picked some independent lifestyle, not just following some natural trend towards That Which Does Not Upset Me, which I thought was generally a universal goal..

Topics do come and go, I'll latch onto a topic and dedicate time to it, go to another, revisit, over time I've realized this pattern and try to make it work for me, mostly getting to the point of 100 or at least 90 % of the thing done rather than the pile of 70% things laying about.

The reason I throw doubt into the picture is not to belittle anyone of opinion learned or not, that there's hundreds of variations of social inequality out there, with physical or historical origins that make someone up to what they are.

One friend's friend, after day one of encountering, basically summed me up as 'very bashful' but when I know someone after awhile I can open up, and plenty of people know and remember me from past times, but as far as that goes:

I have difficulty putting names to faces. Often I'll structure my (verbal) discussions to omit names since I'm not sure who they are, but again, they remember me, usually for my memorable surreality aspect. But not entirely. I work with someone for awhile, long-term friends, etcetera, no problem there. But there's quite a few people that I've known over time that I honestly couldn't give you their names, but you gave me a list, I might guess right...

Thanks for the welcomes. I'll try to be more entertaining elsewhere, but you folks are getting more out of me (they sigh as the post hits word #548) than I've shared before. Guess I should pause somewhere..

let it ramble, let it wander, let us wonder.