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I don't feel I have any applicable skills for a job that I would like. Oftentimes what happens at a job is they'll try to teach me something but I don't really understand and I can't really ask questions because I get nervous in social situations. What results is they put me in the shittiest position, all alone, for my whole shift. Right now, I'm working in the footwear department at a store and basically just straightening stuff for an hour and then kind of walking around the store looking for other stuff to straighten, and hoping that when I get back the footwear department will be a mess so I can straighten it again, and hopefully this takes up my whole eight hour shift because I don't want to look like I'm doing nothing. If I have nothing to do I just kind of wander around the store trying to look busy. No one will tell me anything because they think I'm ret*d and they don't understand my condition. I would like to become a manager because I'm a very smart guy, I just have social anxiety, and it's frustrating that they don't see my true potential. Oftentimes people just kind of ignore me now, or walk the other way when I'm coming by. Sometimes they'll hold a staff meeting without me. I'm wondering what I should do about this. I feel they won't understand if I tell them I have a mental disability, anyway I don't want that to get around. There are some other people with mental disabilities and I find this label ostracizes them even more.

Hi there. I don't know what the law is like in New York. But in the UK employers have to make reasonable adjustments at work for anyone with a disability. I told my boss at my last job, but she didn't tell the staff I was actually working with, so they never knew. But if your employer just made a simple change, for example typing up clear point by point instructions for you to read to yourself, you might be able to progress more.