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Recent content by old dog 16

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    Employment issues...

    I don't know if you are trying to be funny, but that is very insulting to me. I am a very skilled craftsman. While I may soon be unemployed because of my "inability to get along", I am very good at what I do.
  2. O

    How do you respond to “why is everyone diagnosed with ASD and ADHD nowadays”?

    Too bad the U.N. can't stop war. Separate or together, we could all live better without war.
  3. O

    How do you respond to “why is everyone diagnosed with ASD and ADHD nowadays”?

    Also, your way of government might be better than ours. Or less corrupt.
  4. O

    How do you respond to “why is everyone diagnosed with ASD and ADHD nowadays”?

    Wow! Not that way in America. We are very fortunate in many ways, but the rich keep getting richer, and everyone else keep getting poorer. I don't want to go to the poor house, but there are alternatives.
  5. O

    How do you respond to “why is everyone diagnosed with ASD and ADHD nowadays”?

    I absolutely, sincerely, believe you are correct. And I believe many of these people helping less fortunate individuals, myself included, are sincere. Both. However, there is a lot more money in treatment, than there is in cure. I'm 62, haven't been homeless yet, but I can see it down the road,
  6. O

    How do you respond to “why is everyone diagnosed with ASD and ADHD nowadays”?

    Well here I am! I am a 62 year Navy veteran, employed most of the time. Soon to be unemployed again. I could easily see myself homeless soon, except I think there is a better course.
  7. O

    Employment issues...

    I have been a machinist for 35 years, granted it been at too many jobs. Is there a specific problem?
  8. O

    Who here had a bad professional experience and now has hard time finding a job?

    Looking back, I have no doubt my family knew. Not only did they not even try to get me help, they didn't even tell me. I've spent a lifetime wondering what was wrong with me. A lifetime of pissing people off without knowing how or why. A lifetime of abuse and harassment, because I'm such an...
  9. O

    Who here had a bad professional experience and now has hard time finding a job?

    In America, we have many social groups, programs, to prevent suicide. Like all these people know what I've gone through. They want to keep me alive for another day, don't care about me suffering, just keep me alive. I am a veteran, the law says they have to help me. Not in the least...
  10. O

    I've been on the wrong track all my life. The right one is real close, but I'm still off.

    I've been on the wrong track all my life. The right one is real close, but I'm still off.
  11. O

    Who here had a bad professional experience and now has hard time finding a job?

    I'm 62, I've been going through all my life. Had a bit of a break down this morning, more of an eruption of anger and rage. All the abuse, the crap I've had to put up with. More and more, I'm thinking I've put up with enough of this garbage. Maybe it's time to go see God in person.
  12. O

    Who here had a bad professional experience and now has hard time finding a job?

    I expect I'm about to lose another job. Based on my own research, I am high functioning autistic, no offense intended to anyone that I decided this for my self, but it seems to fit and I'm researching it every day. I don't have insurance, but I am trying to get a diagnosis one way or another...
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