OMG! I'm scared I'm gonna wake up and this is all a dream. Let me pinch myself.......Nope, I'm still awake. After one break-down due to job stress, one suicide attempt, one hospital stay, one year sending about a thousand resumes to just about every kind of business establishment and about a thousand rejections, my grandmother paying my bills and me being as broke as a former employee of Enron, I finally got hired! <----tears of joy
It's a call center job but not as stressful since people are just calling to change their benefits enrollment. No screaming, no cussing me out, no endless complaints like the last job that gave me a breakdown. It's temporary, only until January but I'm just so happy to have my own money again and take care of myself instead of everyone else doing it for me.
Now that I know I have Asperger's, at least I can use that knowledge as a tool to cope when things get rough on the job, giving myself permission to have imperfections and do what's best for my mental health. I just wonder will this knowledge change my work experience for the better or will it make things harder since it's something I can't change.
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"There is difference and there is power. And who holds the power decides the meaning of the difference." --June Jordan