i swear applying for jobs is a hell specifically designed to torture autistic people

  • you're expected to lie a little bit, and being too honest is penalized

  • you have to do interviews and wear uncomfy clothes while making eye contact with people

  • in those interviews you're getting asked all these questions about yourself and you're supposed to know how to respond in just the right way to make yourself seem appealing

  • you're supposed to say all these reasons how and why you're a good worker when most of the time you don't even understand anything about yourself or what you're expected to do

  • you have to ask people to be references for you which is especially hell for people with anxiety

and then you're supposed understand all of this naturally even though nobody taught you anything about it

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idk if i'm autistic or not but this is incredibly true. it's quite silly but i'm not sure what a better system would look like… although references are stupid because nobody's ever going to write a bad reference.

yeah idk what a better system would look like either but it currently sucks ass

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