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I realized that my job put my executive function in over drive. i never realized how much my job stresses me until tonight. just mildly self aware that i'm constantly forcing myself to do things even though my body isnt ready. its hard to explain i guess. what i'm sayin is i was doing internal dialouge and i was like i need to do this *frustrated* i didnt realize how much thought goes into making a decision to do something for me. its literally like a tug of war with myself to get my work done on time.

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I am trying to navigate this myself! All of my past jobs worked me too hard, though I didn't understand it until I self-diagnosed - then it all made sense. I would behave very differently at work than at home, because the jobs taxed me so much that it would bring out all my worst stressed out aspie traits. I am not sure if I can handle going back into that kind of environment again. Right now I am looking for different type of work....but I am already burned out, so everything will be hard to stay on top of. To other people, my past jobs may have seen easy/simple - but they weren't to me - loads of executive function required. It's one thing to be technically good at something and just do that, another to do all the executive functioning part of it.
 
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I am trying to navigate this myself! All of my past jobs worked me too hard, though I didn't understand it until I self-diagnosed - then it all made sense. I would behave very differently at work than at home, because the jobs taxed me so much that it would bring out all my worst stressed out aspie traits. I am not sure if I can handle going back into that kind of environment again. Right now I am looking for different type of work....but I am already burned out, so everything will be hard to stay on top of. To other people, my past jobs may have seen easy/simple - but they weren't to me - loads of executive function required. It's one thing to be technically good at something and just do that, another to do all the executive functioning part of it.
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yeah i completely understand that. work is taxing on Executive function to the point of just not being able to do anything but walk around and pretend to look busy. lol
 

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