New Aspie - London

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starenczak
Tufted Titmouse

Joined: 26 Nov 2013
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 41

27 Nov 2013, 11:44 am

Hi and thank you for looking at my post! I say "new aspie" but I have been living with symptoms for some time and have only been recently been properly diagnosed.

Today I got fired from my job and at 28, feel I have plenty of time left to reach my aspirations and goals in life. Be successful, live a long and fulfilling life, be healthy and happy. How I do that from now is pretty much up to me but it is a daunting task; I am awful at inter-personal communication, bad with stress and even worse at understanding verbal instructions, often not understanding what is asked or the reasons why it is said.

With all of this I have still managed to magic myself through interviews in companies and into good job, even though most of the time I am telling them what they want to hear and am very careful with what I say or do at that crucial stage. The psychiatrist has explained that most of what I do is learnt and very little is based on intuition, I guess I have learnt very well the artistic process for a good job interview.

This all quickly diminishes when I start my job and I am asked to go for a drink or engage in a conversation with someone else, I can do it to an extent but can never get a fully flowing conversation and become quickly aloof if the conversation bores me or I have nothing to reply to. All these difficulties become compounded when I have one-to-one interviews with management which to me are the scariest part of a job and the smallest thing said constructively causes unnecessary reactions.

I am currently trying to source as much information as I can to decide my next steps in this world and find the job/environment that is good for me. All signs point to running my own business and with things the way they are, it doesn't seem such a bad idea!

hyksos55
Veteran
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Joined: 15 May 2012
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Posts: 864
Location: Texas

27 Nov 2013, 11:50 am

Greetings and welcome to the Wrong Planet. Sorry to hear about your job loss but you seem to have a positive attitude, that should help you in your pursuit of what you desire. Good luck.

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