Comments on: Doing So Good, But Not Happy http://www.aspieweb.net/doing-so-good-but-not-happy/ The Aspergers And Autism Web Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:53:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tami http://www.aspieweb.net/doing-so-good-but-not-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1646 Tami Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:03:22 +0000 http://www.aspieweb.net/?p=92#comment-1646 As a parent, I am very sorry about your present situation. I am very impressed with your initiative and level of responsibility that you have reached. I encourage you to consider other possible job positions, with less invasive working conditions, to maintain an income while you explore the many other contributions you can make. I understand your concern about the peer support specialist role. You don't have to limit yourself to a specific role...use the creativity you have been blessed with. The best revenge for negative comments/situations is to PROVE THEM WRONG! As a parent, I am very sorry about your present situation. I am very impressed with your initiative and level of responsibility that you have reached. I encourage you to consider other possible job positions, with less invasive working conditions, to maintain an income while you explore the many other contributions you can make. I understand your concern about the peer support specialist role. You don’t have to limit yourself to a specific role…use the creativity you have been blessed with. The best revenge for negative comments/situations is to PROVE THEM WRONG!

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]]> By: Sadderbutwisergirl http://www.aspieweb.net/doing-so-good-but-not-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Sadderbutwisergirl Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:40:26 +0000 http://www.aspieweb.net/?p=92#comment-1051 I think you should give it a go. Maybe you'll make a positive difference in the way these people think of themselves compared to autistic people. I think you should give it a go. Maybe you’ll make a positive difference in the way these people think of themselves compared to autistic people.

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]]> By: laurentius-rex http://www.aspieweb.net/doing-so-good-but-not-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 laurentius-rex Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:45:54 +0000 http://www.aspieweb.net/?p=92#comment-1040 Seems to be invoking the old heirarchy of impairments, familiar throughout the disability movement of the difference between those with invisible or mild conditions who can pass and those who cannot. One side cleaves toward the normal because they can, but never on the same terms as the "normal" All too often one finds this group being advised not to appear "disabled" because it is stigmatising. Well whatever, there is a terrible danger too of being identified as the "super aspie" the ultra positive example of all those PhD's out there which I am dangerously close to joining myself. Thing is I can't help my intellect, I can dress in a smart suit of clothes and do presentations and lectures, at a level that goes way beyond the average undergrad, but I am still the same person inside, just as disabled by the system that does not accommodate my differences properly and leads to my experiencing way more stress than the average academic. I think for me though the biggest danger of working for the system, would be of considering myself better than my academic peers rather than my aspie peers, and in a way that is just as bad. Peer comes from the latin pares, and means equal. One sometimes struggles so hard for equality though, that one has to work that much harder to prove oneself, which I guess is what I find myself doing. It's bad for my liver. Go figure on that one :( Seems to be invoking the old heirarchy of impairments, familiar throughout the disability movement of the difference between those with invisible or mild conditions who can pass and those who cannot.

One side cleaves toward the normal because they can, but never on the same terms as the “normal” All too often one finds this group being advised not to appear “disabled” because it is stigmatising.

Well whatever, there is a terrible danger too of being identified as the “super aspie” the ultra positive example of all those PhD’s out there which I am dangerously close to joining myself.

Thing is I can’t help my intellect, I can dress in a smart suit of clothes and do presentations and lectures, at a level that goes way beyond the average undergrad, but I am still the same person inside, just as disabled by the system that does not accommodate my differences properly and leads to my experiencing way more stress than the average academic.

I think for me though the biggest danger of working for the system, would be of considering myself better than my academic peers rather than my aspie peers, and in a way that is just as bad.
Peer comes from the latin pares, and means equal.

One sometimes struggles so hard for equality though, that one has to work that much harder to prove oneself, which I guess is what I find myself doing.

It’s bad for my liver. Go figure on that one :(

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]]> By: michelle http://www.aspieweb.net/doing-so-good-but-not-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 michelle Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:55:29 +0000 http://www.aspieweb.net/?p=92#comment-1020 I think you should give it a go. I don't see it as becoming "one of them" but an opportunity to make a difference and try and make a change. What is better than that? The worst that could happen is that you hate it. If you leave your job at the factory under decent conditions (by giving an appropriate notice), then there should be no reason not to take you back should the peer support job not work out. I think you should give it a go. I don’t see it as becoming “one of them” but an opportunity to make a difference and try and make a change. What is better than that? The worst that could happen is that you hate it. If you leave your job at the factory under decent conditions (by giving an appropriate notice), then there should be no reason not to take you back should the peer support job not work out.

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