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Knofskia
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01 Feb 2019, 5:24 pm

League_Girl wrote:
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Oh, wow, thank you guys! Those statements (that all Autistics can work) sometime make me feel like nothing I do is ever enough.

naturalplastic, yes, my sensory processing disorder makes many minimum wage jobs very difficult.



I really am curious how you are not able to work any job. I work as a janitor so this is a job you do alone and there are no people and it's a routine job where it's always the same. I am not sure how sensory processing may affect it and what your sensory issues are.

Coincidentally enough, I actually tried janitorial work once and some other cleaning jobs. It does have its issues.

A few examples:
One, the loud, cacophonous noise from vacuum cleaners, even the push carpet sweepers, was often painful and disorienting.
Two, the strong, noxious fumes from chemical cleaners always made me dizzy, faint, and nauseated.
Three, the feeling of cleaning gloves also made me nauseated and made me lose feeling and dexterity in my hands.

And, unrelated to sensory processing, I found it difficult to find a pattern of cleaning the complex environment that would ensure that I cleaned everything - well enough anyway. I could sweep a square room, but add furniture and other odds and ends, creating complex shapes, and I struggled.


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02 Feb 2019, 6:07 am

"I can never be happy because I am autistic"

Uhhuh, well, of course you can't, not with an attitude like that, but the problem is not your autism, it's you. If you've already decided you can't be happy, no matter what the reason, then of course you won't become happy. Autism can make reaching happines harder, sure, but it doesn't make it impossible. Besides, I don't think anyone, be they autistic, NT or something else, ever gets their happily ever afters. Some kind of trouble always comes eventually. A happy life is about enjoying those happy moments in between while they last and trying to create more of them. And we all have some happy moments in our lives... I mean c'mon, if none of us ever had any happy moments, how come we haven't all killed ourselves already?