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Today my boss - who was originally vary wary about taking on someone with Aspergers - decided she was going to give me a lot of my more experienced co-workers duties because she trusts me more and thinks I will do them better! I feel like I have triumphed!

I am the best cash-counting troll she has because of...

*my honesty - surrounded by thousands of pounds and wouldn't so much as contemplate taking a penny
*not interested in social chit chat - therefore work about twice as quickly as everyone else. Also, not fussed about working in a windowless office with no company and counting money for hours.
*logic - I rule at maths and am far more accurate than my co workers.

List your aspie traits which make you amazing at your job!

I drive a forklift and load/unload trucks at a huge warehouse. I am one of the top producers, and I have only been their 1.6 years! Now I make a decent amount, more then many at that company and some that have been their even longer.

WHile I do occasionally chit chat, I mean they are your co-workers and its good to be a bit social and have allies, friends and hear everything about what they are doing and work gossup, often I work alone, and because I have an efficent system for loading and unloading trucks with thousands of cases or products and I do it with more accuracy then many others who screw up, have a poor system and cant keep up. As a result I get treated well and can get away with having a fight with my boss or taking a few days off if i really feel like it.

space and time efficency is good too, i guess what i wrote prior to this was the time efficency, but space is important to and depending on how many pallets of product I have (how I need to possition them in the truck so they dont tip and will all fit if its a full 53' truck. I also have a certain amount of dockspace, since their are 35+ trucks backed into this massive facility everyone needs dock space and because I tend to fill mine up first (to the point sometimes I must work inside the truck itself) I need to be able to safely stack pallets weighting up to 1.5 tons on top of eachother, have them not fall and be neat, organized, and lined up so people can walk around in between them yet no real wasted space.

i can be concentrated and stay focused for very long time...

When I shelve books at the library, I'm like a machine. I do everything systematically and efficiently. I don't get distracted by talking to people (unless they pursue a conversation with me). I don't gossip. I don't complain about other people unless they do something that directly effects me. I don't engage in socially competetive games. Sometimes I do get distracted by the books, though!

I take my job seriously so I always show up to work on time

I am not into small talk so I don't stop and talk to guests, I just keep working

I do my job the way it's supposed to be done

The caddies are more organized and neater than when other employees do it

hmm... also a thought, perhapse an employer should not know if u have a disorder? Seems that can create issues with trust and compitency as far as them seeing you in their eyes...

I wouldn't have told them only I need someone to understand whats happening to me if I melt down. Otherwise it looks like I can't handle pressure/a high workload, which I can.
I'm now quite pleased I did tell them, since I feel like I'm now giving us a decent rep, I don't think they would think twice about taking on people with aspergers in the future.

Anyway I totally forgot about my OTHER job as a DJ. My obsession with looking up every new band I hear about over the net gives me the edge over everyone playing the same boring indie hits.

Me station manager in paddington likes me very much cos im very good at my job n he knows dat i know more about trains n havin a good memory 4 train timetables den all da colleagues who have worked there for over 10 years in da company. I started off part tym but after 4 wks i turned full tym n he said 2 me dat we should employ more ppl wid AS.

I work in the medical field. technology is constantly changing. I learn new software and equipment very quickly. (I like to tinker with it and figure out how the computer "thinks")

I think the honesty and the dedication are the best traits.

And just to point out my friends dad is CEO of quite a nice company and he's an aspie

I'm a COBOL programmer. When the others throw up their hands and say something can't be done, I get excited and want the assignment. I don't know how many times I've been told something was too complicated when the solution looked incredibly simple to me. It tickles my brain just thinking about it.

i work in an office (secretary stuff) and peoples like me because i seem to be the only one that actually bothers to look for things eg keira (real name) where is this file? and i would go to the cabinet and get it out of the spot that it is meant to be. also i don't like to sit around and chit chat and whine all day so
it seems like i get the work done quicker. (peoples around me sometimes just sit around and complain about work and boyfriends and stuff)

I'm honest, and I don't complain about the job, nor do I spend all of my time in idle chit-chat so I tend to get a lot of work done. I'm sociable enough to where my co-workers get along with me, and they know that I'm willing to help them. I also treat customers with respect, even when they're rude. I've never called in sick, and I've even agreed to come in on one of my days off when the store I was working at needed extra help.

I'm good at what I do, I can't walk out the door when there's still patients to be seen. I haven't taken a sick day since I can't remember when.

It has got to the stage where some of my nurses felt they had to put a "Say No" poster up in my room.

I can and will take on work that is beyond anybody else and finish it quickly.

Thus I am an asset to my employers but a roisk to myself as I end up with too much work which puts me under pressure which then makes me forget some of my social skills.

Good for you! I'm happy to hear of your truimph in the workplace. I know how you feel. I once quit a so-called "technical" job because everyone stood around talking while I did the tedious work. I was an outcast. I wasn't just under-appreciated for my dedication to the work -- I was mocked and hounded. It destroyed my confidence. I've never gotten over it.

Now I have a better computer-related job and my bosses love me. Let me count the reasons why!

1. I never call in sick. I am the most reliable person there.
2. I have a great memory. If a rare technical problem exists once, I remember the solution. Oh, and I'm good at thinking through problems, so my step-by-step approach to problem solving always gets to the root of fixing something -- quick and simple.
3. I have no interest in gossiping or whining or degrading others. Thus, I get along with everyone and people appreciate my help without getting any big song and dance about it. My knowledge and humbleness (years of low self-esteem) makes me approachable once people know me.
4. My ability to learn new software quickly and wilingness to take on impromptu tasks gives me more opportunities to impress the higher ups and become even more indispensible. I am always saving the company time and money.
5. My ability to focus on the task at hand means less errors and less headaches for everyone.
6. I actually want to work the overnight shift to avoid society. Where else will they find such an educated and reliable employee to work those hours?

It does my heart good to hear aspies taking pride in their unique abilities and capitalizing on them. Bravo!

I work at a local community hospital as a nursing tech; it's nice to go into the patient rooms, and essentially say a formulaic string of questions, and get simple responses and leave. I used to be much less sociable, but with a LOT of practice, I can hold very simple conversations with short strings of patients in my line, although my eye contact is still a bit pitiful.