14 March, 2013

Disclosure - Part 2

Yesterday was a game changer, but not for the reasons I thought it might be...

I'm currently listening to a recording of yesterday's seminar on disclosure in the workplace - It was not as informative as I had hoped as it became more of an "airing of the issues" rather than an actual how-to format.  Out of the 12 people in attendance, four people spoke (including the woman giving the presentation and myself).  I attempted to bring the others into the conversation but was unsuccessful.  It ended up being a benign discussion that included the feeling that everyone was thinking that they had the roughest life situation to deal with...

My second meeting, on the other hand, was a mostly one-on-one discussion over Myers-Briggs, COPS Interest Inventory results - as well as Asperger's Syndrome.

Have you ever been in a discussion where the people are so certain about something that it is the central point of the conversation?  Well, that is what yesterday was - and the central point was the fact that I have Asperger's.

I have, since this discussion, been trying to get a better grasp on what AS is and how the way I interact with people makes it so apparent to anyone who has studied this life situation.  I am not close to understanding it... and yet, I see a lot of myself in the descriptions I've read...

But I keep coming back to the quote

“If you’ve seen one person with Asperger Syndrome 

you’ve seen one person with Asperger Syndrome” 

– Stephen Shore

It seems like there are a lot of things to learn...

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