A Rabbi who I met once told my the following, namely not to spend a lifetime trying to learn skills and things which do not come or flow entirely naturally, but focus instead on and play to your born gifted strengths and talents.
What my main career related issue is, and which most other people do not encounter so many difficulties with, it that essentially, I do not understand or pick up on the rules of the game in connection with how to make friends, build and manage relationships, what to say and what not to say in any given work or social situation or progress relationships from that of an acquaintance level. In short, I don't understand or know how to socialise with other people which also partly explains why I have had so much time to do studies instead.
Outside of work it's not so much of an issue, but it can be an issue at work and I am also not interested in the back office side of HR IT or HR Systems. I am not the stereotypical or a technical geek either in that aspect. Working just with computers is not my forte.
Therefore, although with having such a condition you can in a sense 'get away' with more than people who don't have it, as they can do it yet I can't, could I potentially use it in any given work situation by being upfront from the outset and telling everyone that if things go this way, I have neurodiversity, explain to them exactly what it is, and that as a result I differ somewhat significantly from the mainstream, being also a member of a separate group of people?
It's more of a hidden condition, but at work it can present problems, or indeed problems in getting work in terms of how you come across.
