An Awakening, A Story About Asperger’s
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[/media-credit]My wife knew before I did, she is in her second year of grad school working on a Special Education degree with an emphasis on autism. She would give me hints that behaviors that I had were behaviors that were on the Autism spectrum. I thought some of what she said made sense because our youngest son is a high functioning person with autism, but it really didn’t sink in. I didn’t really think much of it at all, and then one day it hit me. I might have Asperger’s Syndrome.
I’ve always known that I was different from other people. I could come up with processes that were pure genius and I knew it. Twenty years ago that very skill helped me to quickly become the Repair Manager of Supra Corporation in Albany Oregon. A company that manufactured computer modems and peripherals. I liked the people who worked for me, I had hired most of them, and they liked me even though I could be brutally honest at times. I worked well with my boss Tom Perry, and life was good. I had turned Supra’s Repair Department into a world class warranty repair depot with a fast turnaround time and high levels of customer satisfaction. I had systems in place to catch intermittent products, I had systems in place to catch just about any problem. I loved my job, then one day things changed.
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Tags: Asperger's, Autism., Dan LaFollette