Andromeda wrote:
While you were in the army, how well were you with NT coworkers?
The "work" enviornment in the Army is not particularly suited to socialization. Ouside of the REMF (Office) work (where most office politics/glad-handling rules still apply somewhat), in the Army there is a job to be done (be it fixing stuff or blowing stuff up) and you must cooperate at a technical level to do it. Whether or not you "socialize" when drinking a beer together afterward is really a non issue. You can generall tell the Aspies in a Platoon from the NTs. The Aspies hang with the group - as part of the dynamic - but hang to the outside, the "quiet one" if you will. IMEX Aspies in a Squad/Platoon act as a neutralizing, "leveling" or "calming" influence on their more boisterous (obnoxious) teammates.
If anything, NT emotional entanglements can cause real problems for Combat Arms folks. IMO it's probably the largest "cause" of PTSD... watching someone you have an emotional attachment to get hurt/killed.
I think it would be a fascinating research study to see how many Aspies in Compbat Arms get PTSD vs their NT counterparts.
If I'm any indication, it would be siginificantly less.
Not that we don't care about the person hurt/killed, it's just that the emotional registry is not crippling.
Call it the "Meh" factor.
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