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Asperger's/PDD

hunter

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2. That's pretty much how I got into medical lab and blood bank work.

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:25 PM

Oct 2014

My obsessive perfectionism about certain things was exactly what the job required. They could put me somewhere in the morning and forget about me for the rest of the day. At lunch I'd wander off alone and make it back on time.

That I had few social skills and really wasn't interested in acquiring any didn't matter.

But I wish I didn't have to go through life "faking it." My public self, even here on DU, feels like a construction. It takes me a long time to put a post or reply together.

In my daydreams I'm sorting and classifying stuff.

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PayPal co-founder says workers with Asperger’s more effective than workers with MBA (xpost from GD) [View all] KamaAina Oct 2014 OP

No surprise to me. SheilaT Oct 2014 #1

That's pretty much how I got into medical lab and blood bank work. hunter Oct 2014 #2

I once made the mistake of asking my Aspie son if he'd SheilaT Oct 2014 #3

OMG, that sounds so much like me it's funny. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #5

Aha! SheilaT Nov 2014 #6

I've always had people complement me on my work ethic. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #4