I am 23 and Missed the deadline for college So I have to wait a year and I also got signed up for a program because my dumbass trusted my sister with my debit card. in reality my dreams as a kid were to fly planes and operate trainsI am too broke for flight school and because i had a suicide attempt on record i can not operate a plane. in the united states I have also been rejected from the military due to autism, depression and my cutting myself as a teenager I also tried to apply for a job at Amtrak but they are only interested in trades men and I know i can't do trade work i fucked up industrial roofing there is no way I am smart enough to be an Electrician because I royally fucked up industrial roofing and hard landscaping>I drank half a bottle of rum with lemonade
>>224493360>there is no way I am smart enough to be an ElectricianElectrical work isn't really that complicated
>>224493360international?
>>224493360BHAHAHAHAHA
>>224493360and do you look like your op picrel irl?
Hey OP, I know this might not mean much much to you, but it's very different to go into a trade than it is to get a regular college degree.I've done both. I struggled with depression in my early 20's, had anxiety issues and dread about my future. Eventually, I decided to start by learning about learning electronics and going for an industrial maintenance job. I kinda got some blue collar-ish experience by repairing machines, both big and small. I wasn't particularly good at doing very fine stuff like placing and soldering small components, but I was decent at troubleshooting many things, and could usually count on my co-workers to help me use a lot of tools since I was in a large maintenance team.I went back to college at the age of 23 (after dropping out a few years before from studying some Humanities-related stuff) to study Electronics & Automation Engineering. Unlike work, where most of the pressure was on doing things right and figuring out the way to carry out a physical procedure the right way, college was just more on the theoretical side, quite a bit of grinding through math problems and learning abut stuff like physics, systems theory, and circuits, and occasionally some projects, but never anything like what I had to do for work.I'm also autistic and stuff, so I know what it's like to be overwhelmed by social situations and not be comfortable with vagueness, but overall college for me was really just about doing the same thing over and over and reading instructions very well. Even if you haven't done that well as a roofer or in your applications for stuff like the military, you shouldn't count yourself out of getting a college degree.Life in general isn't really suited for people with autism spectrum disorders, but I can assure you, OP, that college and technical-heavy jobs are perfect for people with autism, as long as they got a good work ethic.
