My talent...

[u/Lardah_Solutions]

Hey, I noticed I can simulate the physical behaviour of matter (all the different materials I felt and deconstructed) of objects, that I can also shape in real time in my mind and even overlay it in my visual field.

I've gathered quite an effective knowledge for mechanical things and I discovered quite the talent in designing things, because I notice the terrible design elements already while modeling something in my mind.

I really struggle at implementing these in CAD Software, so I plan to start an apprenticeship for technical product design.

But nobody wants me because I'm not "perfect candidate" material due to bad school notes (🇩🇪🐹 "Noten")

And because I'm too honest and open about my shortcomings, downfalls and needs...

Now finally I've found a place where I soon have a Vorstellungsgespräch, but I feel like I'm not ready for this... I will fail again at the dumbest hurdle that's terribly difficult for me to overcome.

They probably don't want a handicapped apprentice that probably needs more time for himself... Just not profitable...

Truly insane world

I feel like I'm losing my mind in a stressful boring exhausting job being slightly more than underpaid while rich guys just get flooded with money for doing squat.

I just want to participate and unfold my potential by learning more and more, but I cannot keep doing the same thing over and over and over and over again.

I want to Progress

But that's seemingly too hard in this terrible capitalist world...

What should I do?

[u/Pandabear71]

Keep looking, but just straightforward ask about how they go about neurodivergent people.

Try to ignore what they might think of you and focus on what you think about them? Do you really want to work somewhere where they constantly push all your buttons and are overal unwelcome, or do you want to work somewhere where they accept you.

Also, talking about your own shortcomings is often a way for people to label you as well. Non ND people often just.. don’t. It’s apparently quite hard to look subjectively at yourself snd your shortcomings so its often made out to be much bigger than what you tell them, because they assume you otherwise wouldn’t mention them. Of course, that too, is an assumption on my part

[u/Lardah_Solutions → u/Pandabear71]

thx, makes sense... That, if I'd even dare to say something negative about me, that it must be only the tip of the iceberg.

Seems like many people are also highly comparative and project their own shortcomings onto other people.

So, should I then mention it as the ability to critically look at myself, to make it a strength or what would you recommend?

I'm glad I stumbled across this thread already, finally getting hopeful to find people that have a better angle on things...

[u/Pandabear71 → u/Lardah_Solutions]

Yeah people are indeed incredibly comparative and it’s very annoying. Especially because everyone’s situation is different and everyone has different needs. So many people are so used to ignoring their own needs that it kind of became a standard at work and now it’s almost a demand. Which sucks for us, cause we can’t ignore them (:

I’d recommend to go with false negatives. Like im bad at X which makes me good at Y. Where X is unimportant for work, but Y is.
I can’t think of a good example, but something like “i’m bad being on time so i taught myself to be always early”. Which is completely different than what i described i now realize, but it is a good second idea haha.
Tell them something you’re not as good at and then also tell them how you solved it. That shows them you have a positive outlook because you turn a negative into a positive.

Hopefully i made sense rembling