Obsidian Posted May 17 Speaking as someone with diagnosed neurodiversity, I can definitely empathize with the difficulty of carving out a living through conventional means: the modern job market is constructed with a very specific ideal employee in mind and that ideal does not take into account the ways in which neurochemistry can alter an individual's capacity to interact with the working world. It's also definitely not helped by the external symptoms of these conditions being almost indistinguishable from society's indicators of an individual lack of moral fiber: ASD becomes rudeness and ADHD (more specifically executive dysfunction) becomes laziness, both of which don't encourage people to be sympathetic. I can't offer a solution to these problems as they are very much ingrained in modern society (and especially westernized societies), but I will echo some of the sentiments in this thread and say that you should try and find a career path that incites some passion in you: study towards it if you need to and are able to do so, but find something. If you don't pick a direction for your life, the world will pick it for you and that direction it picks will be straight down. Gets off his soapbox As an aside, status updates exist and they are quite good for these sorts of things. Closing this thread before we get people at each other's throats. 11 Share this post Link to post
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