Re:A Tale of Two Teenagers and the challenges of gifted stud...
by anonreeeeplor on Saturday January 06, 2024 @11:29PM
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The books that have helped me the most have been about office politics and how and why people get jealous and who does well and why.
The best book I ever read was “stealing the corner office.”
I know people who are naturally intuitive and empathetic. They look at another person and go: “oh she is angry because her cat is sick.”
And I go “how the fuxk did you know that?”
More normal people have a sense sort of like this. I do not have this at all. The behavior and emotions of people are this continuous mystery.
If some VP is super angry, I can’t understand why.
Someone with more normal understand goes: yeah he is under a lot of pressure so that is normal just be more relaxed etc.
Corporations are confusing.
Me: I read "How To Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie when I was a teen, and it changed my life.
Other: (laughs) It obviously didn't work because you're terrible at social graces!
Me: Yeah, but you didn't know me before I read that book!
So there is hope, but reading a book won't work miracles. It's a lifelong struggle with me to learn social graces.
A nice side effect of being "on the spectrum" myself is I enjoy working with people like that, including Aspergers, because I understand where their lack of social graces comes from and it doesn't bother me in the least.