Names Steven, 20 yr old in the southwest Virginia area, and have not been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. However, My younger brother has been diagnosed and I suffered a little more then he did from extremely similar traits as a child/pre-teen.
From all the information I have read up on Asperger's, I would say nothing has ever explained me more...
To sum up where I'm at in life, I'm currently enrolled in a community college hoping to get my associates in Engineering and then transfer to Virginia Tech and get my B.S in architectural or aerospace engineering. I currently work at Best Buy as Asset Protection.. but won't be in that position much longer after today.
Besides school and family experiances to learn my Asperger traits from, this job has been a real eye opener for me.
Between greeting customers, monitoring camera's keeping up with activities on the sales floor, keeping track of keys... logs, etc etc, it takes a lot for me to focus on multi-tasking and keeping a balance of attention everywhere. After 9 months of working there I was finally given the ultimatum of either finding a new position.. or being fired. Apparently after all this time of being owned once a week.. being told i have a hard time concentrating and multi-tasking, being told to improve in certain area's then get owned in other areas, my manager and supervisor finally said, "Steven... You're not connecting the dots with this job, I don't know what it is but you're not getting the multi-tasking part down." he went on about a bunch of other examples and such... but it was at that point, when I thought I had "Grown out of my immature traits growing up" that my mental functioning as a person isn't their like everyone else around me, in my life, and in my job.
Sure this is just a college job and I can take this for a grain of sand and move on to improve my behaviors as a person, but it bothers me that not only did my mother recognize this in me and my little brother, but.. people around me are seeing it too. Considering I don't have too hard of a time socializing, and having a few relationships throughout my life, I thought I was just a little wierder then the "norm." I always had a feeling that, intellectually, I was different. I always felt I thought deeper, and had more of a logical connection to everything around me, and now it makes complete sense to me.
This is getting rather long, but if anyone else has their own short personal story, feel free to share it on this thread.
Steven.
20 Jun 2010, 12:46 am
