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08 Feb 2009, 8:42 pm

I couldn't seem to get anything done right today at work... Between feeling funky from sensory issues, and thinking too deeply for the work environment I was in, and having to try and understand people while the sun was bothing my visual sensitivites, and the list goes on... By the end I almost appologized to the shift manager and blamed that shift on AS.

Anyone else have days like these?



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08 Feb 2009, 8:52 pm

Honey, you just described everyday of my life.



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08 Feb 2009, 8:59 pm

That's happened to me a lot in class. It used to confuse the hell out of me because I never had any idea what was going on.
I used to have to leave and run into the toilets to calm down.



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08 Feb 2009, 9:03 pm

mixtapebooty wrote:
Honey, you just described everyday of my life.

Same here.


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08 Feb 2009, 9:06 pm

pensieve wrote:
That's happened to me a lot in class. It used to confuse the hell out of me because I never had any idea what was going on.
I used to have to leave and run into the toilets to calm down.


For the confusion part it at times felt like I couldn't tell the difference between up and potato.



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09 Feb 2009, 12:13 am

So what actually happened, and what is your job?



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09 Feb 2009, 12:50 am

Yes and it's even harder to explain whenever someone asks me what's wrong.

I'm glad you brought this up, I have a hard time putting these sensory issues into words and they can affect to a point where I just want to hide and space out for a while.


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09 Feb 2009, 7:33 am

unreal3x wrote:
So what actually happened, and what is your job?


I work at a coffee shop, a really busy one, and there are just so many things that went wrong that I would have trouble with where to begin.



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09 Feb 2009, 7:40 am

Padium wrote:
I couldn't seem to get anything done right today at work... Between feeling funky from sensory issues, and thinking too deeply for the work environment I was in, and having to try and understand people while the sun was bothing my visual sensitivites, and the list goes on... By the end I almost appologized to the shift manager and blamed that shift on AS.

Anyone else have days like these?


That has KIND of happened to me, but USUALLY I "have to" appologize to the idiots that CAUSE the problem, and I won't apologize to the cause for causing the problems. AS just makes me more sensitive to such things, it does NOT cause the problems.