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   Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 02:50:10 JST Urban Hermit

   • Leslie 🇺🇸🌻🌈 🌊
   • TanekRune

   @TanekRune @Lesliesez I was right on the edge of listing all the positive traits of being autistic with none of the negatives. What is not said was, "I can do this job and nearly half of any others you might have better than it has ever been done. I am not perfect, but I have tested above the 98th percentile in EVERYTHING. I play strategy games on my phone for fun where I am in the top 400 in the world. Now give me this fucking job before I am fucking homeless!" - definitely not said.

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 02:50:07 JST Urban Hermit

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     • Leslie 🇺🇸🌻🌈 🌊
     • TanekRune

     @Lesliesez @TanekRune
     I got into half a dozen of the best universities in the United States & briefly went to Cornell before that state's lack of a minimum wage law & the University's ban on working more than 10 hours a day forced me out.

     This $20/hr job I might be forced to accept isn't even the hardest thing I have done before breakfast. The question isn't can I do this work? The question is when will you disappoint me & how many times I will accept it before moving on.

     Definitely not said.

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 02:50:08 JST Urban Hermit

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     • Leslie 🇺🇸🌻🌈 🌊
     • TanekRune

     @Lesliesez @TanekRune I lived alone in a one room studio apartment in SE Portland in the 90s, worked a near minimum wage full time job as a security guard for graveyard shift, was too poor to buy a car until I was 26 years old, rode the bus nearly 2 hours to get to Portland Community College where I took an average of 2 hours worth of classes before I had to go home and sleep, pursued that for 6 years, and still got a perfect 4.0 GPA in a broad spectrum Associate of Arts block transfer degree.

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     Leslie 🇺🇸🌻🌈 🌊 (lesliesez@union.place)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 02:50:09 JST Leslie 🇺🇸🌻🌈 🌊

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     • TanekRune

     @Urban_Hermit @TanekRune well expressed 👍

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