look i can fit in anywhere i just come off as weird or eccentric. i am currently suing my workplace for discrimination and harrassement. The funny thing is they keep thinking that they know what i am going to do and they are basing it on what an nt would do. I think that is funny. what am doing? My job nothing else. I will get my day in court and the judge will decide whos right until then i just do my job
If it is any consolation that is a problem for us NTs too in a 'corporate' culture. I have husband, family, friends and a life - i have never really wanted to socialise after work with workmates. In the last job I was in I was made to feel very bad about that (in UK) and told that I was not a 'team player'. Why, because I didn't want to go the pub with my workmates???? Honestly think this sort of thing, whilst it may be abigger probmem fpr those who are AS, is just much too prevalent. Work is just a job, your family and home can't be replaced. I now work for myself and only have to take myself out for a drink (smile)!
I was at work training once and a buch of us workers sat outside and talked and suddenly a person came with a really bad rasist coment.I hate such humor.I stood up and left.
Where are you going, asked the person.
I have more importent stuff to do then listen to this,I said and left inside and started working again.
After id gone home he came to my boss and told her what Id done.
I don't fit in. I doubt I would fit in if I tried. It is not my fault that people can not accept my differences. I need to eat lunch by myself and spend some working hours in calm and silence. I believe these should be accommodations that I can ask for.
*grins* As soon as I read this, this came to mind:
yeah its good
I think it is great because I absolutely HATE IT when someone asks what my book is about
How on earth can I answer this?
I know what you mean - I get that all the time... I think it's just inevitable that people will think small talk has priority over everything else you could possibly be doing - it's what many people base their entire lives on.
...Although every now and then when someone asks what my book is about, I say it's about 500 pages... *grins*
I have trouble fitting in at work, but those qualities I do not see from my coworkers. If I were to act like them I'd be doing the opposite.
Luckly I don't have to try to fit in. I work alone 75 percent of the time, which is ideal for me!!! BUT, I don't see how it's a need to try to 'fit' in anywhere. Just be yourself, and be tolerant of your coworkers, that's how I roll. 'Most' of my coworkers find me tolerable, so life at work isn't a nightmare, most of the time. Now if we can just get rid of that b1tch that hates me for no reason, that would be perfect.
I think it is great because I absolutely HATE IT when someone asks what my book is about
How on earth can I answer this?
I completely agree. It's easy if its a certain genre and I can say 'Dragons' or 'Spaceships' or somesuch, but what if I'm reading a Robert Jordan book, or worse, One Hundred Years of Solitude. I can't summarize that in less that a few paragraphs, and I'm hardly going to stop reading for that.