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    No Idea What I'm going to do After School

    If you would consider going up to a Master's, you could teach at a community college level. That is a good steady income, great students. You could get a job anywhere. I would strongly advise you to go into a science, like math, chemistry, some kind of engineering. Better jobs, better pay...
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    What's an associate in applied science ?

    It means you're doing something practical. My first degree was a AAS in computer science. So you'd do labs and learn how to do grunt work of one kind or another. Then you could directly use it to get a job. An Associate's of Science would be something like...I dunno like forestry where you...
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    Online and Offline reactions to my Age and Gender

    Many autistic people appear younger than they are because their faces don't make as many fine muscle movements as neurotypicals. My husband is autistic and I am neurotypical. We're the same age, but I have wrinkles and he doesn't. In fact, most of my wrinkles are around my eyes, I think because...
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    Autistic Workers: Invisible People

    I am also accepting people who wield alternative power positions, such as architects, system administrators, law enforcement officers. The point is that I'm looking to hear from people who control things, decide things, or lead. I also do not require formal autism diagnoses. If you know that...
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    Simon Sinuk on the Millenial Generation

    I've been looking at the generations in the workplace because I just did a study about autistic workers and I had a surprise finding that 90% of autistic Boomers in my study were in supervisory positions whereas only about 30% of Millennials were. I believe about...68% of Generation X were in...
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    Autistic Workers: Invisible People

    I finished my thesis, "Autistic Workers: Invisible People" and am now working on publishing some of the data. I have the highlights of my findings here: Autistic Workers: Invisible People You can also download my full thesis from that page, if you like to read. o_O Go to the main page if...
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    Telling Employers?

    Letting you work from home sometimes sounds like it would help. But I understand what you're saying. Once I worked at a place and my boss' boss sexually harrassed me in front of two other women. He looked at my shirt and said, "I'd grab, but you'd slap, right?" Then he got on the elevator like...
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    Telling Employers?

    I wish I could get into that manager's head and see what was going through her mind, from the bullying and pushing you stage all the way through when she found out you were on the spectrum and suddenly backed off. Did she realize she was about to get into trouble or did she have a moment of...
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    Autism Disclosure in the Workplace (study)

    Oh yeah I forgot about Open Office. Thank you, Rhymer! I used that for years at a software development company because our boss didn't want to pay for MS Office, so I can second that it is indeed the same. If that won't work I can email anyone the informed consent in other file formats if you...
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    Seeking Advice For Family Comm.

    Why don't you just enroll in your school and start classes again? I don't understand this problem. If you can't work on programming at home, go to the library and work on it there. They have computers. Apply for student aid and get a laptop with whatever extra you have left over. Game...
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    Asperger's and difficulty with authority figures

    I don't see how anyone could be comfortable obeying rules that don't make sense, but lots of people are. There are people that like it even. I'm NT, but I also really struggle with authority. I've been a boss myself and I'm a mom, but I'm more of a motivational authority. If I have to put my...
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    Not learning anything in college

    That's been my school experience too. I have an associates, two bachelors and I'm almost done with a masters. It's rarely interesting or applicable to what you want to do and you have to teach yourself. I bend whatever I can to apply to what I'm doing. What I do is critical autism studies. So...
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    Autism Disclosure in the Workplace (study)

    What if the document is in rtf? Would that work? I could make a Google doc, but the documents have to be individual and I don't know if that can work with google docs.
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    Telling Employers?

    Why are you on a do not hire list? Did they tell you? I mean, maybe not a job you wanted, but that still sucks. How did it go with the staffing agency? Can you target a place to work with a lot of female workers? Many women prefer being around gay men as friends and colleagues because there's...
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    Autism Disclosure in the Workplace (study)

    So sorry for the late reply! This got lost in my notifications! No, you do not have to print it out. Download, enable editing, type a name (I don't care what name as long as it's not obviously fake) and the date, then email it back to me at autatworkvtATgmail.com
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