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9:10pm June 4, 2014

➸ Re: Skills we have BECAUSE we're disabled

feliscorvus:

chavisory:

Like, I have a good friend. She is also autistic (in addition to other learning disabilities), and also in theater. We talk about this stuff a lot. We are similarly flabbergasted, often, at some of the kinds of coping skills and creative thinking that our non-disabled colleagues don’t seem to…

YES THIS SORT OF THING.

In my current job. The main example of this is the fact that I fix stuff that nobody would even dream of trying to fix. I am not always successful but I have a pretty good success rate considering in some cases it’s “hey, this thing is still useful but it was built in 1979 and oh here’s the manual in barely-legible scanned PDF!” And sometimes it’s literally a problem like “bad electrolytic capacitor in the power supply” and I was able to diagnose it by just looking at the darn thing and seeing that it was bulging on one end.

None of this feels big-dealish to me but people get very OMG over it.

And on another, related note, I tend to do the same thing in terms of conditions I am willing to put up with. Which is probably the “worst” aspect of this…thing. Whatever it is.

You totally remind me of my father.

I wish the job he had at SLAC still existed.  You would have excelled there.

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    Yes
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  6. madeofpatterns reblogged this from chavisory and added:
    Exactly. My language isn’t visual but I experience something similar.
  7. chavisory reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    Oh yeah. Part of the reason that the misconception that autistic people can’t understand that different people have...
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    You totally remind me of my father. I wish the job he had at SLAC still existed. You would have excelled there.
  12. feliscorvus reblogged this from chavisory and added:
    YES THIS SORT OF THING.In my current job. The main example of this is the fact that I fix stuff that nobody would even...