No. It's not about aspies being more intelligent than N.T's.
What find ironically hypocritical though is how NT employers demans professionalism in almost all aspects of the workforce except when it comes to social matters, you have to stop yourself from coming across as too 'cold' or 'tense' which is really just another way of saying 'serious/hardworking/focused'.
So no, aspies aren't more intellignet than N.T's because we type in much greater detail.
The real problem is clearly a few of our co-workers that are too informal/laidback whine to the boss that we're too serious about the job for them.
Maybe it is a bit wrong that you are almost like a robot at work then. But I don't actually see anything wrong with it myself, just that perhaps others do believe this, though I couldn't possibly know why.
Studying/school is a bit more laidback and relaxed, to me that makes sense, but why should working a job be? Maybe to enjoy your job and feel 'comfortable' working at a certain pace, but if you actually enjoyed your job (and the others treat you neutrally) I'd assume you'd feel this way automatically without the need to place your workplace as responsible to keep you satisfied working there.
It's like working as a garbageman and whining that the work is too hard.
Complaining about your mean old robotic aspie co-workers who are taking things more seriously than you (read: this would usually mean YOU are a slacker. Think back to high school - the people who complained that everyone was studying for tests/exams were usually the slackers who only wanted to distract their friends because they were more apathetic about their results) is essentially the same entitled, whiny rubbish.
If you genuinely can't get along with your co-worker and/or they're actually mistreating you, then of course there's a problem. But if your co-worker is simply slightly more serious, perhaps you, the complainer, are the one who should change.
Like the other's have said, yes, this is no laughing matter and you have to get this sorted out immedietly and will inevitably play by their rules.
Doesn't mean I'm not going to point-out just how the system is broken.
Oh, if only more aspies were employers. Then we'd see no reason to complain about formality/taking the job seriously compared to 'could you be a bit less serious all the time'. "No, why don't YOU take the job more seriously? I want to get back on-topic and talk about the next meeting, you're going off-track to make small talk about that sport I never watch on that channel I've never heard of."
Another point: In my humblee opinion Tawkwaki I believe there is a difference between your bosses method of typing messages, the typical N.T. co-worker way, and the way some/many aspies here may type their messages. I don't believe it's a black and white mentality of "you either have to be short and consise like N.T's or it's far too long, detailed and repeating of the same things again and again." I believe there's far more variations than this, and don't see anything necessarily wrong with the one variant that is not short and to the point but not overly-long or detailed.
24 Jan 2016, 12:00 pm
