rudder wrote:It's a reference to the other guy. Are there any advantages to having Aspergers? Can you get money from the state?
I've had like 3 separate psychologists diagnose me with it, but the diagnosis only came after running neurological tests. Before my neurological tests people just said I was "depressed" or whatever.
Can I get money from the state? Maybe? My last job was gotten through a BRS state agency and was a paid internship, paid minimum wage with federal dollars. My counselor at BRS wanted me to try working before just giving me money for free. I could apply if I wanted to, to SSI, but meh. That'd be up to the SSI "court" if I did or didn't.
As far as treatments I've only figured out a bunch of Chinese herbs/etc, maybe some Russian pharmaceuticals. It's really a pointless diagnosis as nobody can really help you after you get it. Any treatment around is designed for younger children in a school environment. As an adult, it's more "well uh, that sucks, good luck I guess." After seeing one psychologist, when I asked him about it, he said "well, I can't do anything for you about your Aspergers or whatever as an adult. I can give you drugs? Do you want any drugs? I can give you anti-depressents, anti-anxiety..." I fail to see how it's so positive of a diagnosis for some people, as nobody can do anything to treat it and nobody in your daily life will give a f**k if you tell them about it and will still say "you're so smart" and expect a lot from you.
You miss the point of the anecdote: the importance of honesty and integrity. I was the only one during that interview process who displayed that characteristic and to the boss, that was an important personal requirement.
Of course most sales and marketing job requires the ability to BS convincingly. Car sales and cell phone sales are the most notorious examples. BS, cheating, lying is rewarded whereas honesty, integrity and ethics is not. But if you feel comfortable being a BS artist, go for it. Just remember what goes around comes around.
Is true. I interviewed at Radio Shack. The guy straight out told me "Yeah man, you need to learn to bullshit better." Because he asked me to talk to him about a phone without me knowing much about the phone. Also, nowadays since we're a complete consumer society that doesn't actually produce or really "do" much of anything, the only jobs around are selling things or flipping burgers.
Obviously times have changed. If one has to be a pathological liar and lack integrity to be employable, then we as a country are in a sad state of affairs.
Which is why people are moving out and nobody wants to move here except people from very very third world countries.
Anyway, one place you should MAYBE look for jobs, and this is where I got my government (lol) job. Labor unions. I worked for the state employee labor unions filing papers. Many are fairly "closed" but in my experience not much paper work/etc gets done in time, so they need more temps to do stuff like that. Also they hire people to organize protests, or go to places and try to get them unionized. Also you can go be a bargainer and negotiate pay raises/etc. The "organizer" roles aren't big for hiring, but they might need paper shufflers. Seriously, just look for the offices of labor unions and get an application, might have a position available. Maybe. With the fast food workers wanting to unionize/etc, maybe more openings for organizers.
Another big job opening is elderly companion. You go to their house, watch them, talk to them, cook their meals, etc. If you have a nursing assistant license or LPN or RN license you get paid more but have to actually do medical stuff and/or help them wipe after the toilet/etc. Many of those are really hurting for people.
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