Aspergers at work?

Stay away from these people and do your job. Simple!! This social situation has little to nothing to do with work. Sounds like you are adapting, that is good. Simple!!

Sounds like you work with *******.

Don't stop being polite. It may take some time for others to get used to you. Right now you are strange to them. Time can change that. It is going to be hard but continue to try to interact with others. Befriend your immediate boss.

Look for a compatriate until you find one. After that, others will come.

Good luck.

I have Asperger's, but you and I seem to have different problems with the condition. I can't touch paper, can't write with pencils or use a blackboard. It is a label, and people fear this because they think that people with said condition are different than everybody else. Don't worry about it. You'll do fine.

I am very much like you. I know you know there are lots of people who struggle with what you're going through and to those people you're normal so please don't be too hard on yourself. On top of that, I am extremely proud of you for coping well with this. It took me years before I stopped letting people ignoring me at work to stop breaking my heart and learning to enjoy my alone time and taking walks on lunch and things you seem to have just done readily. People are taught that its best to be kind to everyone despite differences but in reality difference still scares people. People stay away from you not because they don't like you or think that you're less of a person its because it makes them uncomfortable and nobody likes to be uncomfortable. They don't know what it feels like to be you so they distance themselves instead of acknowledging their shortcoming in not be tolerant and open to learning about differences. I don't use labels to describe what is wrong with me when I talk to coworkers because another observation is that people will assume they know. They'll read an article or two about Asperger's syndrome and become an expert, they'll stay away from you even more because now they know that you don't like to be bothered with social interactions. No matter how far from the truth that is, people come to that conclusion frequently and no amount of pleading with them and showing otherwise seems to change their minds.

The only thing that has worked for me is find one or two people who genuinely want to know you and work on your social skills with them, don't worry about pleasing everyone because it simply wont happen.

If you see someone alone sit near them. People who are alone often don't want to be alone and will talk to you.

Be quiet and listen. If you're anything like me that's not hard to do. I find at work people love to complain and out share each other with stories. You instantly become likable if you're not in obvious competition and prove to be a good listening ear.

If you're a student or very competent in something, share it with them. For me, I was a student so I would bring my homework. People would be very curious and lots of conversations were started with something as dumb as defining kinesiology.

Work to get ahead. Figure out what you're really good at work wise and build on it to cover your weakness. At work people always like the competent worker. In my first job I was a cashier. I don't speak well at all and am very shy, I make little eye contact and repeat the same things over and over, long story short, overtly I was a pretty lousy cashier. However, I understood one thing well that at a place like that everything is interconnected. A typical cashier knows their job description and gives the minimum to meet that. Me, I learned my job description and those of everything else that I could reasonably do. Instead of being locked on a register, I knew how to locate things in the backroom, sell things on the floor, maintain the entire front end, stock, process claims, etc. I knew how to be an efficient worker so I became valuable in the eyes of my coworkers. That opened the door to earning respect and people who ignored me at the beginning started seeking me out to discuss things and it wasn't always work related.

Really, you have to practice until you become proficient.

Know that it won't always work out the way you want, just don't be discouraged and keep trying.

Keep smiling and be friendly. It really is other people's loss that they're so prejudiced that they miss out on knowing you.

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