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    Yes, please stop using dirty words like 'euro"pe'n" dollar' or you WILL be booted off wink (with big cowboy boots) !
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    Hey Shift - I agree with all the advice here. Just wanted to add something as a fellow aspie. It sounds like you've had a lot of perseverations over the years. It may not make sense to pick a career based on a perseveration unless it is truly a long term obsession (and you may not know what this is for you yet). Starting with CC and seeing where that takes you sounds like a good plan.

    It might help to analyze your perseverations also. I noticed that while mine, at first glance, seem all over the board, many of them have something in common (for me it is working with my hands). Do you have any major common threads in yours that you can gear your studies toward?


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    No, it's all good, it's funny, like I get the effect of the drugs without the hangover.

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    Quit picking on me, we're supposed to be teasing shift for their aimlessness:(
    I mean, encouraging them to continue to persue their passions even if they have to make their own way and follow a path of their own:)


    Shift Baby, the world's your oyster and if you want a quality degree that's your birth right. �That's the American dream. �I must mention that in the workforce employers prefer reliability. I'm not being harsh. Here's a quick google search of jobs that are flexible. �http://ysn.com/top-10-jobs-that-free-up-your-daytime/. �Look. I know you and I don't have the same style or the same taste, but it's worth considering. �A degree is for a job. And unless your health improves at least think about what work you can do that is valuable enough that offers job security with extra sick days. �You are very smart and talented.
    I feel like you're smart enough that the colleges will still give you a chance, and that they'll let you advance. �But you still have the same health problems. �Can you even do it if they let you. �I know you're smart enough. �Really think about where you want to be.
    By this point in the conversation I don't really recall what all of your health problems were, having just met you. �But I do remember that you had migraines. �There's no doubt migraines affect performance. �My own mother suffers severe migraines and she really seems to like her job at the post office as a mail carrier. �With the right medication she is able to perform this job even on the days she is very sick from a migraine. �She said it's a hard job to get and a competitive job to keep and you have to be very reliable. �But it pays good with good benefits and room for advancement. �Somehow spending most of the day in her car driving to the mailboxes is doable on a migraine day. �Which I don't get because I thought sunshine hurt migraines.
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    Alright I'll shush and let someone smarter that me take a crack at offering some advice. Ha-ha. I said crack. That reminds me, pull up your pants.


    Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar
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