I was diagnosed with aspergers syndrome at 5 years old. My centre specialises in work training for some severe sufferers. Others are better off.
It portrays the world to autistics like the rest of our corporate capitalist society- slog your guts out for the man, with no guaranteed payoff.
I seem to know better that looks can get a person further in many arenas of life, but my 'boss' (a simulated boss, mind) doesn't acknowledge this and is bugging me constantly for work to be completed. She's a married woman, so must have found someone who loves her along the way. But I don't get this personal perception I have. I think deep down I am actually too advanced for this centre, but because the users have had their own troubles on the spectrum in the past, and are spoken to like pets, I get treated likewise from time to time and its wrecking my self-esteem.
It is causing me distress and despair that I never got to feel liberated with what I have got. When I was younger I was teased and insulted often, and ran in with crass girls in teens and 20s (at this age, probably young horny things unrealistically holding out for Chads). That combined with the pressure the centre is putting on me. I think I also left amateur theatre and my hobbies because I was terribly insecure (I didn't tell my family that). Do you think I should persist with this centre?
It portrays the world to autistics like the rest of our corporate capitalist society- slog your guts out for the man, with no guaranteed payoff.
I seem to know better that looks can get a person further in many arenas of life, but my 'boss' (a simulated boss, mind) doesn't acknowledge this and is bugging me constantly for work to be completed. She's a married woman, so must have found someone who loves her along the way. But I don't get this personal perception I have. I think deep down I am actually too advanced for this centre, but because the users have had their own troubles on the spectrum in the past, and are spoken to like pets, I get treated likewise from time to time and its wrecking my self-esteem.
It is causing me distress and despair that I never got to feel liberated with what I have got. When I was younger I was teased and insulted often, and ran in with crass girls in teens and 20s (at this age, probably young horny things unrealistically holding out for Chads). That combined with the pressure the centre is putting on me. I think I also left amateur theatre and my hobbies because I was terribly insecure (I didn't tell my family that). Do you think I should persist with this centre?
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