Dunkin Donuts Situation

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I have just recently started working for about two weeks, I am confused on why I can't ''keep up'' the speed or learn as quickly as the other people that were hired and in training?. I tried working on the register but couldn't put everything together quick enough, can't make drinks for the drive through or work drive through for that matter, even doing portions and inventory I can't ''process'' quick enough, yet I understanding everything and consider myself very intelligent in other ways, one woman that basically just started was on drive through the second day and learned everything ''fast''

I think it's a very common thing with ASD, that it takes longer to learn, though when we finally get there we often know it better than most. Certainly that's my experience of being taught by most other people.

Short-term memory is also a problem with many who have ASD, so if your training is mostly verbal and at a rather fast pace, you may be at a disadvantage. Also, I often get "stuck" on a detail in the instructions that isn't very well explained, so that I fail to take in much of what follows until I've cleared up the problem of that one detail. We often need much better clarity than NTs need. It seems they get stuff from context more readily than we do.

There may well be other features of ASD that help to explain the apparent paradox of our often being at least as intelligent as anybody else but less able to learn from a neurotypical-centred teaching style. Hopefully the ones I've outlined will go some way towards you beginning to understand how these seemingly strange things can happen.