Ways in which aspieism conflicts with your job

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Other problems are my and other colleague's way of thinking.

If a boss gives me a task, I can come up with a system which may be more efficient than the boss's system is. Sometimes I am allowed to apply my new system, sometimes my system is too strict and has to be changed (made more flexible), sometimes my system is rejected, because the boss's system is the way that she would do it, or that she is used to, even if her system takes more time and is less efficient than my system would take. I can never be sure about it.

Sometimes I need permission from my boss to do certain things (in a learning process). The boss has no time, so I have to suspend the task, till she has time. It would be better if I do these things independently (without her permission, i.e. she would agree anyway).

If I have to reject my system, I have to relearn the other's system from scratch (that can be interpreted as a learning disability or retardation). I have an example outside my work. I wanted to be a bookkeeper of a council. I came with a bookkeeping system, but was rejected by someone. She had to reteach the system to me, so that I do the bookkeeping on her way. The problem was that she had no teaching skills, so instead of a day, it took a year to learn it. Then it could be easily interpreted as a learning disability from me, while I think she has a teaching disability.

If she wants (or any other colleague) me to do things her way, she has to teach or tell me that. That should not be a problem. In my book that is not a learning disability.

In the case of the council, it took a year to have a working bookkeeping. To me that is unacceptable, because the council MUST HAVE a bookkeeping system. It could be avoided if the other person would not have blocked me to come with a decent system, which could be set up in one day, instead of a year.