I Need to Use My Gifts – An Autism Request and Job Story
“I am an out of work everything nurse … I have ASD = Aspergers. It took 2/3′s of my life to get to this conclusion, but now what?
My mind never shuts down … I am up all night and my wife and kids cannot figure it out. My sons have ASD to their own extent. My oldest son is more introverted like my brother but when he is out of his shell it is great. My youngest is my “Mini-Me” but he still has that innocent disposition.
I can do anything … some psych. doc said I was a ‘mimic’ , looking at my resume. It is covered with jobs which I can do and I do well, but they had no challenge and I got bored. I am a Nurse but my brain does its own thing in that department. I have several theories on how to heal, not harm. But, who wants to listen to some guy who says, ‘Hey, I just figured out how to fix Parkinson’s and it just might do the same for Hunting’s, and last night my brain fine-tuned it for ALS. Call me.’
My tact is not always on right but I am very functional to a degree (put that there for my wife.)
Any advice on getting into being part of research instead of being the research?”
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Me, again—I would like to clarify a few things, I have ASD/Aspergers Very High Function with a 40% obtainable IQ of 163 due to AHDA and Hyper Kinetics. I have a short focus and easily distracted, but see in my head the whole, no mater what it is I can see all sides like the computer stuff on the TV shows. I memorize maps for some reason and when I entered the Medical profession I had already mapped out the blood stream in my head. The neural pathway is very much like a map and I am seeing it in my head and trying to map it for the whole body. It looks like I may have a job next week and I am looking for ward to it. I will be working in Cardiology again and it is going to be fun for now seeing that I haven’t been working. I toured the place yesterday and when I saw the Nuclear Scan I was impressed and could see the heart and the vessels as they were brought to the screen, in my mind I could se it flow but the scan was cool. I am still trying to get the “normal” professionals to hear me when I pitch my research ideas. In my head I can see how to bring to the real world the “Luke Skywalker” mechanical hand to life with skin and all.