I was first diagnosed with Asperger’s in 2012. I have tried to break down the deficits associated with it, and solve them individually. But no matter how hard I try, there is a barrier of communication. And it is related to internal motivations. So I have an analogy that explains the difference that divide the autistic mind from the rest. At the core, autistic people have different behaviors and priorities. And I will explain what I have observed those to be. Have you ever seen a dog run up to a cat and sniff them, only to be scratched by the cat? This is an example of what happens to me frequently. Imagine that the autistic person is like the dog, and the nuerotypical people are like the cat. People tend to think and judge actions and words based on their own frame of reference, just like animals do. When a cat sees a dog run up and sniff him, the only way the cat can make sense of the behavior is to think about why a cat would behave this way. And so the cat sees it a
There is no shame in it, if you were never intended to be an employee. A general rule of thumb, if you aren’t working on your own dreams then you are working on someone else’s. I think it’s really important to stop fighting against the current, and to pick a destination downstream. I’ve found from my experience that fighting against the current just keeps me swimming in place, and too I found that if I take the direction I am pushed towards then I can actually pick a destination and make some real progress getting there. Besides, the path to real wealth has always been the path of failure. Failure contains the lessons we need to grow, and shows us which directions we really need to travel in. This way, when we find success in our endeavors, we can double down and repeat it. I have often heard that the process of becoming truly wealthy is boring, taking the same simple process and repeating it hundreds, thousands, even millions of times. There really is no reason to b