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author | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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committer | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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'anymore' means 'any longer'. 'any more' is incorrect.
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diff --git a/content/entry/coming-out-as-autistic.md b/content/entry/coming-out-as-autistic.md index f7f614c..1e892c8 100644 --- a/content/entry/coming-out-as-autistic.md +++ b/content/entry/coming-out-as-autistic.md @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ All throughout my life there were times I was quickly given a set of verbal inst ### Abstracting I also want to explain the trouble I have with abstraction. I'll explain how this difference makes it hard for me to keep a job. Let's start with an analogy. -A kitchen is an abstract idea composed of a stove, usually some chairs arranged around a table, a refrigerator, cabinets, and other things. For neurotypicals, when the kitchen chair is moved, that's just the kitchen with the chair moved. Low-functioning autistics have trouble putting objects into larger, abstract contexts. For low-functioning autistics, a moved kitchen chair can be very distressing because to them, it's not the kitchen any more. +A kitchen is an abstract idea composed of a stove, usually some chairs arranged around a table, a refrigerator, cabinets, and other things. For neurotypicals, when the kitchen chair is moved, that's just the kitchen with the chair moved. Low-functioning autistics have trouble putting objects into larger, abstract contexts. For low-functioning autistics, a moved kitchen chair can be very distressing because to them, it's not the kitchen anymore. It's the same thing for me, except with tasks and goals instead of a chair and a kitchen. When I worked manual labor packing shipping containers, it took a while to understand where the container was headed. It took me a while to figure out that the reason I was cutting the cardboard boxes was so they fit in the commercial recycling unit. I know it's normal not to understand the purpose behind every subtask related to one's job immediately, but it takes me so long that I get fired before it makes sense to me. @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ After moving away to a new high school, I had a Spanish class where the desks we As far as high school goes, that's all I recall. I spent my last year of high school in community college instead because high school had become so intolerable. I didn't care about starting college early. I just knew I couldn't go another year in high school. ### Community College -In community college, I had no problems with bullying or teasing any more. The environment was different. People were more mature. Everyone there was paying to be there. It was an adult environment, not a hormone-driven teenage popularity contest. I enjoyed it much better than high school. +In community college, I had no problems with bullying or teasing anymore. The environment was different. People were more mature. Everyone there was paying to be there. It was an adult environment, not a hormone-driven teenage popularity contest. I enjoyed it much better than high school. In community college, I sat next to a girl in English class. We started talking and became friends. We went places outside class. I asked her on what I now know was a date. She accepted, so I went to pick her up. Before we left, her dad told me not to get her in trouble, not to get her pregnant, and that he would use his shotgun if necessary. I respected his candor. @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ A separate time, I got a phone call from work. It was the junior manager asking I hadn't even learned how to work the line yet and my job got switched to packing the food into the small plastic bowls. Then it got switched again to doing the dishes. I was told to clean the dishes, so I did. This one dish had lots of crud on it built up over time. So I spent maybe ten minutes scraping it all off. My coworker made a joke about it taking me so long, hinting that I needed to move on already. I didn't get the hint and had to have other employees help me finish up so everybody could leave on time. -My next shift I showed up late to work again. The boss wasn't happy. She took me into the back office and said "I gotta fire you". I was sad about getting fired so quickly, but also relieved that I wouldn't have to be in that overwhelming environment any more. I realized there was no way I'd be able to work fast food. I was too slow. +My next shift I showed up late to work again. The boss wasn't happy. She took me into the back office and said "I gotta fire you". I was sad about getting fired so quickly, but also relieved that I wouldn't have to be in that overwhelming environment anymore. I realized there was no way I'd be able to work fast food. I was too slow. ### Manual Labor After fast food, I tried a job doing manual labor. My trainer walked to our work area, turned halfway around, and stared at me. I knew by the way he was looking at me that he was expecting me to do something, but I didn't know what. So I stood there until he finally told me to come with him. @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ When I woke up the next morning, I was still in sensory overload. I hadn't even ### Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Fast forward to university. I got a job at information technology services (ITS) working at the help desk. Since I also studied there, it was very convenient. My duties were to answer phone calls and assist students who showed up in person. Socializing with strangers all day isn't my strong suit. It was very draining and I had to ask for help from coworkers often. I kept being told I would "get the hang of it", but I'm not sure I ever did. So I switched to the ITS team responsible for fixing and maintaining equipment in the labs and classrooms. -If you've been following my journal for a while, you might think I was successful in this role. I quit because it was distracting from my studies and I didn't want to troubleshoot proprietary software any more. In fact [I wrote an entire entry about why I quit](/2020/07/02/why-i-left-its/). I never got fired. But what I didn't mention in that entry is that it's basically impossible to get fired in that position. I knew a guy who refused to do any work during his shift and still didn't get fired. +If you've been following my journal for a while, you might think I was successful in this role. I quit because it was distracting from my studies and I didn't want to troubleshoot proprietary software anymore. In fact [I wrote an entire entry about why I quit](/2020/07/02/why-i-left-its/). I never got fired. But what I didn't mention in that entry is that it's basically impossible to get fired in that position. I knew a guy who refused to do any work during his shift and still didn't get fired. When I first started working there, it was obvious that my boss hated me. A coworker even said so. My boss sometimes got very impatient and shouted at me. We miscommunicated constantly. I decided to disclose my autism so he at least understood why we were miscommunicating so much and it turned out to be a wise decision. |