“Unfortunately, as someone with both ADD and Asperger’s, I simply cannot do a job and learn at the same time, and that happened, I may never be able to go on to graduate school.”
I had to pull you up on this one.
I found this jarring to read. While encouragement to not dwell on weaknesses and avoid self limiting beliefs is all well and good it is not ok to frame it in a way that prematurely invalidates InquilineKea’s expression of their circumstances with that sort of presumption.
If so, it’s because you aren’t capable of those things, not because of ADD or AS.
It certainly can be because of ADD or AS. For a reasonable definition of ‘you’ AS is part of who ‘you’ are and can definitely be a causal factor that either prevents certain behaviors outright or makes them incredibly unwise.
I found this jarring to read. While encouragement to not dwell on weaknesses and avoid self limiting beliefs is all well and good it is not ok to frame it in a way that prematurely invalidates InquilineKea’s expression of their circumstances with that sort of presumption.
It certainly can be because of ADD or AS. For a reasonable definition of ‘you’ AS is part of who ‘you’ are and can definitely be a causal factor that either prevents certain behaviors outright or makes them incredibly unwise.