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I'm an insurance broker specializing in mid-to-large commercial policies. I'm doing okay. I'm higher-functioning ASD (originally Asperger's) and do well professionally.What do you people here do for work? But overall, is being underemployed or struggling with career, not getting paid enough, common for autism people on the spectrum?
It's just as difficult to get a disability pension here (all of us have free health care here so that's not an issue for us) but I breezed through it purely by luck.yeah i'm trying to get ahold of my psychologist whom i have known since elementary school, i speak with him like 2 to 3 times a year, i last spoke to him in November, i did bring up this topic, i don't remember everything he said but i do remember he told me that its difficult to get on SSI, he has other clients who struggled to get on it
for rent assisted apartment, are you living alone?I’m a kitchen helper who works only part time. I haven’t worked full time since 2018. I’m going back to school to study for an accounting clerk certificate. Hopefully that will help me get a better job.
I moved out of my parents’ house at the end of last year. I’m in a rent assisted apartment. It feels good to be independent!
Yes, it’s most definitely common for autistic people to be underemployed, everything you said here, very much so. It’s also common for us to be high intelligence yet low “achieving” in a professional sense. Is there a community college in your town? You seem like someone who would do well in school.Don't get me wrong, I don't like to use autism as an excuse all the time, don't like to use it as a crutch, and overall, it's best to not blame it for everything, but my question is, is it normal or just common for people with Autism to be underemployed?
Or to live with their parents, folks, late in life or don't move out of their folks house until later?
Overall, not be financially stable yet or not have a job, career, that pays them well enough to make ends meet?
Just asking because I work at an Amazon warehouse making $20.90 an hour at the moment, and some days of the week, Friday through Sunday, i get paid $22.40 an hour, and I have been stressed and worried about my future lately. I normally work 5 days week. The only jobs, employers i have worked in my life, are at a restaurant, grocery store, and a warehouse. I'm at year number 3 at Amazon, and i previously worked at a grocery store for 4 years. So i'm proud of myself for being able to get and hold onto jobs, even if i have never had a high level corporate professional job, or something in healthcare, office, etc., jobs or careers that require college education, etc.
Because I do still get some financial support from my parents and obviously my folks are not going to be around forever, and that is no doubt a huge source of stress and worry for mine lately.
What do you people here do for work? But overall, is being underemployed or struggling with career, not getting paid enough, common for autism people on the spectrum? I'm open to believe that this is also common for people without autism as well, but i think its a little bit more common for those on the autism spectrum than those who are not right?
Yes, I sometimes feel that way, but I can never figure out just what I did WRONG.yeah, sometimes i feel i ruined my life or screwed my life up
I remember times, like when I was slogging through the jungle in the pouring rain, or up to my hip in snow at minus 40 degrees because my snowshoe slipped sideways, I would think "Why can't I have a nice , warm, comfortable desk job?" Then, after a week or two in the office interpreting data, I would think "THIS IS FREAKING BORING, get me out of here and back into the field!"Work is too stressful for me. I don't blame people who don't want to work. I'm getting crap at work right now and I feel like I'm being picked on for being a cleaner. I hate being a cleaner, it's such a boring menial job yet you get all the pressure to be on your feet all the time. I just want a sitting down job, it's so much easier when you're feeling fatigued from the stress of life, and at least you'd be working whilst sitting down. Whenever I sit down at work it means I'm not working and then I get told off even if there's nothing for me to do. Okay, little 10-minute jobs here and there but that's no good as it just involves me wandering around in the dark and the cold looking for something to do just to keep the management happy, while everyone else gets to sit in the warm and eat and drink. But me, because I'm a cleaner, apparently I "should always be doing something". I wouldn't mind if that rule applied to everyone but it only seems to apply to me.
Maybe I'm useless, stupid, bone idle. I don't know. I should be dead really. I mean, why am I even here? What use am I? I'm a useless, worthless nothing.
I thought my life originally was just bad luck which I had to overcome, so I went to work over coming it Another college diploma and a number of certificates later, and job changes a fee periods of unemployment, strikes. felt like I could never get up that hill, Actually enjoyed night school, Ever position change My experience improved, pre painting to post painting, aluminum to steel then plastic, my improved education and experience was more than any body else had. Over time I had become a real expert, Then one day fooling around on the computer joined a Myer Briggs forum, wrote a test on autism, knew nothing about it, found out, 99 % probability yes I was one, Even then did no know what this meant. Knew I had special skills could just solve intractable issues that others just could not, Could just see it. Over time learned about autism, always thought it was about people with learning disabilities, Used my unusual skills to improve my current employers process even out survived other lab employees who had considerable experience and degrees in chemistry, process keep improving as I made suggestions Until I was the only lab guy left. We were so successful a competitor purchased us as we had abilities unmatched in the industry. Few years later I retired, Ten days after my birthday I had a stroke, joined this forum. Here I am. It's not what you did wrong, however what you did right.Yes, I sometimes feel that way, but I can never figure out just what I did WRONG.