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CONFORMING – I CAN BE AUTISTIC Posts about conforming written by VisualVox. I just re-took the The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R).I’d taken it years ago, and it was one of the tests that really caught my attention and seemed reliable – in that it factored in what happened when you were a kid, as well as what’s happening with you as anadult.
MOM – I CAN BE AUTISTIC The points in this piece can be as true of adults, as they are of children. It can help immensely to understand the nature of your issues — as well as accept them as how you just are.LITERAL THINKING
Do bees actually have knees? I count six? Lately, I’ve really been noticing how literal and visual I am when I process language. I have images that appear to me when people make indirect references to things, including jokes. AGEING – I CAN BE AUTISTIC It worries me, to be honest. I was talking to a couple of different folks over the past few days, and the question of aging came up. I’ve got a birthday in another month (exactly), and I always think about my “trajectory” ’round about this time of year. SNS – I CAN BE AUTISTIC Autistic folks can be a bundle of nerves. It’s what we do with it that makes the difference in how we’re perceived. I’m stating my understanding of this issue as a question, even though it’s something I’ve observed first-hand, while in groups of autisticadults.
SHARED: AN INFORMAL RANT ABOUT INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN I think the fundamental problem of why we cannot understand the difference between males and females with autism is because we look at the condition as a overriding layer of a person’s self, and do not consider that whilst this does colour a lot of our thinking and behaviours, there is EXERTION – I CAN BE AUTISTIC I’m up early today. I got to bed at a decent hour, last night, but the pain caught up with me. I shoveled and snow-blowed (or is it snow-blew?) and raked my roof for three hours on Saturday, trying to get the packed slush and heavy snow out of the way, so cars can get up and down the driveway, and my roof doesn’t leak in the places it developed “issues”, a few years back when we got ROPE CAULK – I CAN BE AUTISTIC It’s that time of year again. The nice thing about having time off work, is that there’s no set routine for me to stick to. The downside of that, is the very same thing — there’s no routine forme to stick with.
ORLANDO – I CAN BE AUTISTIC But I can’t do it easily. I’m having a hard time ordering my thoughts. It’s almost too much. And it’s derailing me. It’s pulling my resources and energy away from my daily life activities, making me even less functional that usual. SCHEDULE – I CAN BE AUTISTIC Posts about schedule written by VisualVox. I need to discern patterns to live effectively. Sometimes it feels like it takes forever tofigure it out.
CONFORMING – I CAN BE AUTISTIC Posts about conforming written by VisualVox. I just re-took the The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R).I’d taken it years ago, and it was one of the tests that really caught my attention and seemed reliable – in that it factored in what happened when you were a kid, as well as what’s happening with you as anadult.
MOM – I CAN BE AUTISTIC The points in this piece can be as true of adults, as they are of children. It can help immensely to understand the nature of your issues — as well as accept them as how you just are.LITERAL THINKING
Do bees actually have knees? I count six? Lately, I’ve really been noticing how literal and visual I am when I process language. I have images that appear to me when people make indirect references to things, including jokes. AGEING – I CAN BE AUTISTIC It worries me, to be honest. I was talking to a couple of different folks over the past few days, and the question of aging came up. I’ve got a birthday in another month (exactly), and I always think about my “trajectory” ’round about this time of year. SNS – I CAN BE AUTISTIC Autistic folks can be a bundle of nerves. It’s what we do with it that makes the difference in how we’re perceived. I’m stating my understanding of this issue as a question, even though it’s something I’ve observed first-hand, while in groups of autisticadults.
SHARED: AN INFORMAL RANT ABOUT INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN I think the fundamental problem of why we cannot understand the difference between males and females with autism is because we look at the condition as a overriding layer of a person’s self, and do not consider that whilst this does colour a lot of our thinking and behaviours, there is EXERTION – I CAN BE AUTISTIC I’m up early today. I got to bed at a decent hour, last night, but the pain caught up with me. I shoveled and snow-blowed (or is it snow-blew?) and raked my roof for three hours on Saturday, trying to get the packed slush and heavy snow out of the way, so cars can get up and down the driveway, and my roof doesn’t leak in the places it developed “issues”, a few years back when we got ROPE CAULK – I CAN BE AUTISTIC It’s that time of year again. The nice thing about having time off work, is that there’s no set routine for me to stick to. The downside of that, is the very same thing — there’s no routine forme to stick with.
ORLANDO – I CAN BE AUTISTIC But I can’t do it easily. I’m having a hard time ordering my thoughts. It’s almost too much. And it’s derailing me. It’s pulling my resources and energy away from my daily life activities, making me even less functional that usual.LITERAL THINKING
Do bees actually have knees? I count six? Lately, I’ve really been noticing how literal and visual I am when I process language. I have images that appear to me when people make indirect references to things, including jokes. SIGHT – I CAN BE AUTISTIC It’s Friday. I don’t have a lot of time to fritter away on illogical groupings of stuff in my kitchen. That includes the salt and pepper shakers that sit atop the console of my stove. BOOK REVIEW: AUTISM AND ASPERGER SYNDROME IN ADULTS BY DR “Never believe anything you read about autism” this is how this brilliant little volume begins, and this sentence attracted me straight away. I am tired of reading books and articles along the lines of “All autistic people are this.””You can’t be autistic because you can do that.” “If you have a diagnosis, you will react to this in such-and-such a way.”, because more oftenSENSE OF HUMOR
Let me first say that, in no way, shape or form, am I saying a dark and twisted sense of humor is a bad thing. I think it’s fun! It really brightens my day in the most challenging of circumstances. ENERGY – I CAN BE AUTISTIC Posts about energy written by VisualVox. I’ve struggled massively with writing this. It’s ironic really. It’s taken me six weeks to start writing an article about Autistic Burnout, because I’m NT – I CAN BE AUTISTIC Just because I’m standing close to you, doesn’t mean I want to sleep with you. I’ve always had issues with standing too close toother people.
PASSING – I CAN BE AUTISTIC This video made the rounds a while back, and it’s still as pertinent as ever. I may seem like I’m fitting in quite nicely, blending andwhatnot.
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Posts about Harvard Pilgrim written by VisualVox. And this is what they want me to make lemonade out of. Apparently, my employer has ditched Blue Cross – Blue Shield for Optum Health (United Behavioral Health), and now I have to jump through yet more hoops to hunt down anASD diagnosis.
ORLANDO – I CAN BE AUTISTIC But I can’t do it easily. I’m having a hard time ordering my thoughts. It’s almost too much. And it’s derailing me. It’s pulling my resources and energy away from my daily life activities, making me even less functional that usual. RIGID – I CAN BE AUTISTIC Posts about rigid written by VisualVox. Sharing from Redefining Normal: A Young Women’s Journey with Autsm When it comes to measuring the capabilities and challenges of autistic children and adults, IQ is one of the main measures that is employed.Skip to content
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WELL, THAT WAS INTERESTING…On 11 July , 2019
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And so very validating! I had my discussion session with some funding people I thought could provide me with some guidance about how to move forward to get one of my Big Projects funded. As in VC-funded. Venture capital. Angel investing. All that good stuff. I’ve been leery of reaching out to funding people for quite some time. I once worked at a startup that was under constant pressure from investors to do things they didn’t want to do. But they had to, because the investors said so. In the end, nobody actually made much money other than the investors and the two guys who initially foundedthe place.
I didn’t want to get sucked into that sort of situation all over again. But then I got a chance to talk to these funding folks, just to pick their brains, so to speak. In the end, what I realized is that they’re really no smarter than I am. And the things they were telling me weren’t really all that different from what I’d been thinking, myself. In fact, if anything, they were telling me a lot of stuff I already knew. So, that wasvalidating.
And frankly, I have a more sophisticated and evolved understanding of the problems I’m trying to solve, and a much simpler way to solve them, than most of what I see out there. So… there it is. Again, I am convinced that funding is not the way to go for me. I can quit even thinking about that stuff, and focus on just doing. Just building. Just making. That’s all.Next…
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UP EARLY – AND REWARDED FOR ITOn 8 July , 2019
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Well, I have LOTS going on, these days. I’ve got a couple businesses in development (because why have just one?). I have a meeting with some money folks on Thursday to walk them through one of my businesses, and explain to them why it makes sense for others to team up with me on the idea. It’s not a startup, per se, since startups are typified by not knowing exactly where you fit in the grand scheme of things, and spending tons of money, trying to figure that out. My business idea is very clear, it is targeted to a widespread, expensive problem, and I know exactly how to plug it in all across the board, to fix that pernicious issue. So, where’s the objection to them getting on board? That, we shall see. Anyway, I was up early this morning, getting to work online a couple of hours before I usually do. I was supposed to do some work over the weekend, but of course I didn’t bother, because, well, it was a bother. Plus, I had to take care of my own stuff — not the overlords’ conceits. I mean, really, that’s what they are — conceits. The way things are run at work, it’s so inefficient and so fraught with f*ck-ups, there is NO WAY ON GOD’S GOOD EARTH any of this is actually intended to work. It’s not about getting things done. It’s about some influential individual(s) making up for the fact that their parents didn’t treat them right and/or they got roughed up in gradeschool.
News flash, I endured all of the above, but I’m not running around making everyone else miserable in the process. Let the record show that IT IS, IN FACT, POSSIBLE TO MAKE UP FOR THE STRUGGLES OF YOUR CHILDHOOD WITHOUT SPREADING THE PAIN TO EVERY OTHER LIVING HUMAN BEING WITHIN YOUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE. There, that’s my public service for the day. Take note. And dobetter.
Anyway, I got my f*cking slides done this morning – got the monster one put together, and updated the other six presentations I had to update for my weekly “what’s wrong now” status call. And then I put it down and walked away. And got to work on my own stuff. Optimized my one site (got it up to a 95% on Google Page Speed Insights, which was no small feat for that clunker), cloned it to make another, updated the new site with new logo and colors and all that, and now I’m delving into domain transfers between multiple providers, with the added wrinkle of domain privacy being purchased that now apparently obscures all my contact details, which are required to transfer the domain.Report this ad
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Oh, and I just remembered that I need to do something pretty critical in the next hour and 10 minutes. It will only take me 10 minutes to complete it, but I hate having things like this “sneak up on me” on a Monday morning. Well, anyway, at least I got those slides done. I started around 6 and finished up before 9, so I got my hours in, first thing. And now I sit around and wait for people to tell me “That’s not right! You did it wrong!” because they never offered any guidance for what they were looking for, in the first place. Seriously, I have such a hard time “reading” these people, sometimes. The things they want me to do seem so nonsensical, the areas they want me to focus on seem so counter-productive, and the activities they delegate… well, clicking little checkboxes to assign meta data to uploaded files is NOT the sort of thing you ask someone with 25+ years of heavy-duty tech experience to do. I hate to be a diva about it, but seriously?! We can’t come up with a system that will assign those values FOR US?!But I digress.
The most exciting thing about my life, these days, is that my boss has hired someone he really likes who is probably flagged as my replacement. SO EXCITING!!! I have been hanging in there, because there hasn’t been anyone else to pick up the slack for what I’ve been doing, and I’m not going to leave them in a lurch. People who work with me know I’ve been dissatisfied and bent out of shape for years, now, and honestly, how much can you expect one person to take? Especially when they’re (I’m) being systematically erased and made redundant by politically connected people at HQ who keep carving off the things I do, saying “Oh, we’ve got that covered” … when CLEARLY, they don’t, because they screw up everything theytouch.
I think my boss has known I was on my way out the door — one foot out, even as we speak. I’ve been less and less intense about my work, from day to day, and I’ve been less and less engaged. I mean, the engagement thing and the intensity thing would be on the wane, even if I were planning to stay forever, because there is SO MUCH WORK, and I burned out at least a year ago (maybe longer back). I have to pace myself, not to mention budget my indignation. I’ve been bent out of shape over these people for far too long. And I need my energy for other things than outrage. Especially when the outrage produces no results, whatsoever. Well, anyway, I’ve been contacted by a number of recruiters, over the past weeks. And I’ve got this meeting coming up on Thursday about this potential opportunity. Plus, I’ve got other businesses in the works, I just need to finalize the applications, and then start making calls to get people on board and make some sales. That’s the hardest part, of course, but what I can’t lose sight of is that I build good sh*t, and it can — and will — make people’s lives better in the process. So, whatever is happening in the background of my life, it’s just there… and I know for a fact that everything changes and it gets better in some ways and worse in others. That’s just how it goes. No situation is 100% perfect, and as much as that galls me, I just need to deal with it. Make the most of my opportunities where they arise,and all that.
And take advantage of those crappy times to make better times out of them. Like me having to get to work 3 hours ahead of schedule, and getting stuff done to clear the way to do my own thing. It’s the exact opposite of what I prefer, but sometimes I can make it work. As long as I’m not expected to make it work, every single day.Report this ad
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I CAN ALMOST THINK AGAINOn 30 June , 2019
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There are about 20 of these in my study – at least, there were until a few hours ago I’m cleaning out my study. At last. It’s been kind of a “null zone” for years, now, as I’ve moved my operations, like writing and blogging and coding, to the dining room, where the wireless signalis stronger.
I work from home a lot, these days. More than I’m in the office. It’s good, but that means I have to set up shop at home. And that means, I’ve taken over the dining room as my “office”. The wireless signal is stronger. And frankly, it’s often easier for me to think in the dining room, where I’m not surrounded by my books. Being surrounded by books has its advantages, and disadvantages. Biggest disadvantage is the distraction. I have a lot of books. Covering many different topics. Neurology. Survival skills. Occupational rehabilitation. Philosophy (particularly phenomenology). Simone Weil. Autism. Stoicism. Samurais and Zazen. Art. Finance. History. 12th Century Renaissance in the South of France. German dictionaries for all occasions. You know, the usual assortment of deep and varied interests that someone like me would have. The other thing that my upstairs study is full of is mementos. Like a LOT of mementos. Little figurines. Matchbox cars. Mugs and ornaments and odds and ends that I picked up along the way that have significance for me. Being in my upstairs study can be quite… consuming. So, when I need to block everything else out, I take myself down to the dining room, where I’ve spread out all my papers and notebooks on the table, and I work there. It’s fine. It’s also closer to the kitchen, which comes in handy when I’m hungry orthirsty.
But now I need to get back to my study. Because that’s where I THINK. The dining room is fine for working-working-working, but when I need to really sink into a line of thought and let it consume me, my study is where that happens. And it’s been a long time since that took place. Honestly, I’ve been so slammed, for the past year, working on a number of projects, that I haven’t taken much time out to just settle in and let it all sink in. I’m making huge strides, it’s true. And I’ve come up with some pretty cool stuff. But at some point, I need to stop, take stock, assess, and really dig into who I am, what matters to me, what I actually think about things… versus staying in that the constant current of GO-GO-GO. There needs to be a balance. That’s for sure. So, I’ve been cleaning out my study. I won’t post pictures of it, because it’s still a little Muench-scream-inspiring. But it’s getting there. At least now I can sit down on the chair at my desk and actually have room to write on the desktop.Report this ad
Three hours ago, it wasn’t like that at all.Progress.
One thing at a time. One pile at a time.Progress.
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ANOTHER POST… BECAUSE, WHY NOT?On 29 June , 2019
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Oh, I’m on a roll today. Two posts in the space of 24 hours. Soprolific!
I’ve had a pretty good day, sorting through a lot of questions I have about my future, thinking through the job opportunities ahead of me (I’m in the running for two very different positions), and mapping out my future path in ways that actually work for me. Huh, it’s funny… as much as I hear people talking about Autistic people being under-employed, I’ve had the opposite issue. I can’t seem to get away from being over-employed. I have my day job, my weekly 9-to-5, and then I have all my other activities, which I suppose are kind of like very complex stims that help soothe me by redirecting all the energy (anxiety?) I have in overabundance. Don’t get me wrong – working in the neurotypical world is really horrible, on a regular basis. I just can’t stand it, half most of the time. And yet, I’ve built up sort of psychic callouses towards it, and all the awfulness just seems like business as usual, which I try to ignore, as I’m putting fuel in my car, food on the table, and money in my bank’s mortgage account. It’s the price of membership. It stings and it takes a toll, butthere it is.
Anyway, fun stuff happening at the same time that all this intensity is going on. Additional projects — fun, fun, fun! — that are helping to re-route the overabundant energy from my system into the ethers around me. I’m collaborating with some members of a little autistic online tribe on a blog we’re just starting. I won’t say more, because I’m not sure how we want to play it or promote it, but keep an eye out for it, ’cause it’s gonna be fun! Had I mentioned… fun? Well, that’s enough for one day. Time for supper. Yes, it’s 9:00 p.m. I’m doing my European thing today.SHARE THIS:
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EVERYDAY I AM UP AND WORKINGOn 29 June , 2019
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Each and every day, I’m up and working. For others, for myself. Especially on weekends, when I have full days to myself. And my work. Some people warn against ending up on your deathbed, regrettingworking too much.
My regrets will be more about not having worked enough. All the hours I frittered away, “playing” or “relaxing”, when I could have been working towards making substantive changes in my life. Those are hours and days and weeks and months I’ll never get back. Everybody has their ways. My way is work. And I love it. It changes the world around me and it changes the world within me. And how I do love that kind of change.SHARE THIS:
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PEOPLING – IT’S (ALL) A LEARNED THINGOn 27 June , 2019
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There’s a lot going on with me, these days. I’m in the process of looking for another job. Ideally, I’ll find a recurring contract situation that pays really good money and is low-commitment, which lets me bail on the 9-5 every 3-6 months or so, then get back in the swing of things (if I need to). I’m also working on a couple of other businesses at the same time. They’re mine. One of them has been many years in the making. The other is about a year old. The other (which actually has the most $$$ potential for each individual transaction), I just started a few months ago, and it’s going pretty well. Meanwhile, my partner is not doing well, cognitively, emotionally, and physically. No matter how supportive I am, she continuously makes decisions that erode her well-being. It’s complicated. Long story short, it’s not fun watching the love of your life decline beforeyour very eyes.
Anyway, one area where I need to make some real progress is in how I deal with people. I notice, more and more, that I’m really getting more autistic as time passes. I think it has to do with how much more sensitive I keep getting. It’s like, every year I get more “cued-in” to what’s going on around me, and my sensory issues keep getting more heightened, as well as more intrusive. So I need to acquire some new skills – particularly withnegotiation.
Here’s the thing: I can be TERRIBLE with figuring people out. I mean, seriously. Some days, I can’t tell whether they love me or hate me, I can’t tell if they’re listening to me or ignoring me. I can’t tell whether I’m doing a great job in the interaction, or they’re just trying to get away from me.Report this ad
Here’s the other thing: Some days I can be 100% ON, when it comes to interacting with people. They respond to me, they love me, they feel a kinship with me. But even when I’m ON, I have a really hard time reading the situation and knowing where to go next. My Solution? To train myself in the appropriate process to interact with people and negotiate any human interaction. If you think about it, pretty much every human interaction is a negotiation. People want things. They want things from me, they want things from you, they want things for themselves. And their interactions are geared to get those needs met. My partner is a classic case of that. One of the reasons she’s so difficult to support, is that she gets very histrionic about her challenges and she “amps them up” for effect, to prompt pity and help from people around her… so they’ll help her do things that she really needs to do for herself. In front of other people, she makes a big show of how hard it is for her to do things. There’s much groaning and moaning and displays of difficulty. And everyone runs to her assistance to help her do things she needs to keep doing for herself, in order to stay strong andhealthy.
But when nobody is watching, she does those same things for herself. She gets herself out of bed. She makes her coffee and toast. She moves around the house. She takes care of things. It’s completely different from when someone is nearby. Then, she appears to be almost completely disabled. That’s an extreme example, of course. Not everyone is as histrionic as she is, nor do they manipulate others to that extent (and to their own detriment). But you know what I mean. Probably. Everybody wants something from interactions. _ESPECIALLY_ neurotypicals. So, I need to get educated about how to manage that. Because my life isn’t getting any easier, and I need extra skills to A) negotiate a job change, B) expand my existing businesses, and C) really work out how to just deal with people effectively. I need a script. I need a road map. And I’ve been watching YouTube videos about how to put together that road map. As artificial as it sounds, I keep hearing that you can script out your interactions and follow a process to lead people down a certain path of interaction. It sounds a little “Pied Piper”-ish, but apparently, people like to follow others’ leads, so I need to put myself in a leadership position when I deal with others. It sounds a little tiring. But I’ve actually gotten in the habit of doing that, since just “winging it” with other people is so _fraught_ for me, and it’s way too anxiety-producing. What I do is immediately take the lead in pretty much all my interactions – I talk to people first, I comment on things, I put ideas out there, I step into the void of silence and uncertainty between us, and I give them something to react to. And then I keep leading them into that void, giving them the chance to respond safely. They don’t have to come up with anything novel, themselves. They just have to react to what I’ve put out there. And it works. For us all. My technique is a little clunky, however, so I need to fine-tune it. That’s what I’m doing, watching videos about establishing rapport, negotiation, sales and prospecting processes… basically learning what I need, to be more comfortable in my own skin. I’m actually finding sales training videos to be very helpful, because they are about establishing rapport and bringing people over to your side.Report this ad
So, that’s what I’m doing. Training myself to do the people thing. I’ve learned to do so many other things in my life, that are extremely challenging and daunting for most people. With the proper training, I should be able to learn this peopleing stuff, too.SHARE THIS:
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NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT EVERYTHING I’M DEALING WITH, AND THAT’S FINEWITH ME
On 23 June , 2019
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I won’t bore you with the details (as much as you’d probably like to hear them in all their glory). Suffice it to say, I’ve got a LOT going on, and it’s unbelievably burdensome. Some days, I can’t believe I’m still upright. And yet, I am. I keep going. I look for the positives. I remember my responsibilities. I don’t always handle things as well as I should,but I handle them.
And I don’t talk about it. I share with a few autistic friends I connect with online. I tell other people I know little bits, here and there, if I think they can help (I usually don’t). One of the reasons I don’t tell people about everything I have going on, is that they’ll think I can’t handle it. They’ll think I can’t do my job. Or they’ll think I can’t keep up. I don’t feel like being limited by other people’s limitations of imaginationand capacity.
Another reason is that I don’t want people feeling sorry for me. That’s the worst. Pity is poison to me. It kills the spirit and weakens the body. How will that help me? It won’t. I also don’t want them reaching out to support me, because then I need to interact with them. Explain things to them. Get bogged down in their mirror neuron drama. Have to navigate their insecurities and neediness around MY challenges – which they magically make intotheir own.
Another reason I don’t share is that the things I’m dealing with are Lots Of Big Things, any of which by themselves would overwhelm the average person. I don’t feel like being bogged down in other people’s protests that “It’s too much!” It is a lot, but other people trying to convince me that it’s all too much for me to handle just blocks me from handling it. So, why would I mention the full gamut of what I have going on? But most of all, I don’t get into what I’ve got going on, because that distracts me from DEALING with it all. My thought process is non-verbal and very visual. If I have to translate what I’m experiencing into words, it block me from accessing my most effective, inherent traits that can actually HANDLE what’s coming at me. Talking usually makes everything worse. So, I choose not to. And I just get on with the business of handlingeverything.
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THE BENEFITS OF EXTREME DIFFICULTY On 20 June , 201920 June , 2019By VisualVox In
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Quick post for today, before I gear up for the four-day family reunionextravaganza.
And no, I don’t want to talk about it. I’m not looking forward to it at all. My family is overwhelming. My parents are both on the spectrum, and my mother is hyposensitive, which means everything has to be loud and over the top for her to perceive it. So, EVERYTHING IS LOUD AND OVER THE TOP. Which is painful, to say the least. But I digress. This post is really about how I’ve developed some pretty impressive telephone skills, over the past several years. My job has devolved from hands-on, direct involvement in What Gets Done, to sitting on the sidelines, watching everyone screw everything up, and then being helpless to change the course of things. All I can really do is observe and then report. Which is maddening for me. I need to be hands-on, not pushed to the side. Plus, when I see people making terrible mistakes with their choices, I can’t just sit by and watch. I need to do something. Say something. But my input gets pushedaside, so…
I’m looking for a new job. One of the things I’ve done more, for the past 3 years, than I’ve probably ever done before, is talk on the phone. Now, mind you, I have auditory processing issues, and it’s really hard for me to do phone conversations. But for years (especially the past year), I’ve spent anywhere from 6-10 hours in a day… guess what … talking on the phone. Listening. Trying to follow. Having that be my only connection to my colleagues, who are halfway across the country. _AUGH!_ It’s been HORRIBLE.So painful.
On the other hand, it’s been very helpful in training me to do well on the phone. I mean… REALLY well. Funny, how that goes. When I don’t get something, I _really don’t get it._ But once I figure it out, and I come up with my own system and techniques, I can be really, really good. As in, second to none. As it turns out, working the phones is now that sort of thing for me.Report this ad
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HA HA! I’M GOING TO QUIT, ANYWAY! :D :D :D On 16 June , 201916 June , 2019By VisualVox In
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I’ve been wrestling with the odious task of putting together a PowerPoint presentation for my boss – who’s covering for me at a workshop next week, while I’m at a family reunion. Personally, I think I’d rather go to the dreary slog of daylong meetings of people droning on, rather than dealing with my family for four days straight… but that’s now how things turnedout, this time.
I guess, instead of sitting at a table, surreptitiously checking my social media while I feign “engagement”, I’ll have to pay attention to real live people with whom I (ever so reluctantly)grew up.
That whole reunion thing is a hot mess I just can’t even get into,right now.
But back to the PPT (as we so fondly call those instruments of corporate torture)… I’ve been sweating over it for days, because it’s going to be presented at some Highly Momentous Planning Session that you’d think was swaying the future of the known-and-mapped world, the way people are going on about it. Basically, the workshop is pretty important. But that’s only because it’s the only way they can get all the chronically distracted people to pay attention to the same thing at the same time, so they can audibly commit to doing the jobs they’re supposed to do, anyway. For this, I need to fly halfway across the country?! If people would just do their jobs, we’d be that much better off. But I’m being unrealistic. For them, anyway. And this Momentous Occasion will depend on me delivering _Just The Right Amount Of Information_, orienting everyone to the present and future state of the technology we’re in the process of delivering (late). Pressure, pressure. Meetings with my boss. And my boss’es boss. And reviews by the boss’es boss’es VP boss. High drama, indeed. So, it has to be right. And I’ve been sweating it. But every now and then, I have to deliberately remind myself — I’m leaving this job at my first opportunity, so the pressure is off. When I go, the waters will close behind me, like the Red Sea enveloping the Egyptians behind the fleeing Israelites. And I shall be free to move about the desert as I choose. Yeah, I can’t wear myself out with worry over things like Getting Everything Right. It’s in my autistic nature to fret over details like that. But honestly, all I need to do in the neurotypical world is come up with something halfway passable, and then ACT THE PART OF SOMEONE WHO IS EXTREMELY SELF-POSSESSED AND COMMANDING. NT people love that. They really do. It doesn’t matter – at all – if there’s any substance to it. All that matters is the feeling of confidence and surety I give them, when I talk. It’s taken me years and years and YEARS to get that substance usually takes a back seat to form with non-autistic people. And it’s taken me even longer to come toterms with it.
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But hey, that’s how they roll, and as long as I can hack their behavior and simulate something that works for them, that’s cool. We’re cool. And that’s how I get ahead. I am often (by definition) an impostor in the process, but then, so are they. And if they don’t care, I can’t get worked up over it.Whatever works.
Plus… _HA HA!_ Even if my PPT is a dismal failure (which it won’t be, because I know how to REPRESENT!!! when I present to those folks)… I’m still leaving at my first opportunity. And no, the proverbial door will not hit me on the way out. They’llbe eating my dust.
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WHAT’S RIGHT WITH THIS PICTURE?On 16 April , 2019
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Ha! One of my Autistic buddies brought this to my attention: As pretty much any Autistic person can tell you, the creators of this handy infographic are spot-on about this: Behavior suppression is NOT behavior modification. News flash for the ABA “practitioners” in the crowd. BEHAVIOR SUPPRESSION IS _NOT _BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. And, in fact, addressing root causes not only modify behavior, but they completely remove the need for the behavior, to begin with. See, lots of the “unacceptable” behavior that Autistic folks exhibit is in response to stressors around us. Like, the whole world’s worth of stressors. We do what we do for a very good reason, but not many people seem the least bit interested in understanding whythat is.
I’m tired, tonight. I’m tired of having to think about this stuff.But yeah, I do.
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