Navigating the social world and the difficulty in obtaining promotion

For any purpose who is unable to play the politics game and suck up the right people, promotion is all but merely impossible. Often because you don't know how to play such games and navigate the social world, you are often over looked or forgotten about in terms of promotion and skills enhancement. What I find difficult is the interview process and being able to convince hierarchical structures that I am keen and enthusiastic to learn new skills. Often such difficulty means that you encounter difficulty when wanting to learn more. I have always used the only mechanism at my disposal which is to not lose hope and to always find a way. Some things in life can be severely crushing and just because you see things a little bit differently to others, you are often isolated and crushed. I know I am an intelligent person and yet I have to rely on my intelligence to understand and make sense of the world around me. I struggle more so in a lot of areas which other people find easy and the only response you get is we all have such struggles. Well that may be true to some people, but you try spending a great deal of your time not being able to read signals, nuicances and body language which 85% or more of the population find easy.

I think from my own personal experience that people with Asperger Syndrome suffer mainly in the point of entry and expectation. By this I mean the job interview process often works against them and furthermore the means by which to demonstrate their abilities within a work environment. As work places become more computerised, a lot of adults with Asperger Syndrome struggle to cope with the absence of routine and predictability in their lives. This very problem creates or more so causes from my own personal experience a rise in anxiety levels. This rise in anxiety levels then causes a physiological affect of the adult with AS not being able to perform in a set task or function because they either experience melt down or an inability to cope. I think negative stereotyping of AS is not helpful. People with Asperger Syndrome do not lack emotion, two way interaction etc. People with Asperger Syndrome just respond and react to situations differently to other people. Wrongful stereotyping creates a great inequality in that adults with Asperger Syndrome greatly miss out on a reasonable quality of life. Being unemployed causes a lack of self esteem which in turn creates a scenario of wanting to withdraw and be left alone. Even within employment a great deal many Aspies are fail within the promotion stakes and spend a lot or great deal of them time in base grade level positions. Often if they are just given a chance to demonstrate their abilities, then employers and Managers may be convinced of the merits of people with Asperger Syndrome. Does equity really work when comparing an adult with Asperger Syndrome and furthermore what if any does this have on their day to days lives? I guess it is up to the individual to decide?