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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 413342" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Interestingly, while it took Billy quite a long time to actually get a job, he is doing extremely well in retail sales which I would have never thought would be a job for a person with any sort of aspie tendencies. I think having him under my mothers wings for so long actually stunted his growth because she didnt want him to be social or do normal things like get a part-time job. She tried desperately to get him to quit school in his senior year but we put our foot down and brought him back up here to actually graduate but she rushed him straight back down there with her the minute he graduated. We had a job lined up for him for that summer working with Tony to help him lose some of his weight and then he would have gone straight into college in the fall but she would have none of it. Instead it took another two years until she got so sick. Billy didnt have the umph to stand up for himself. </p><p></p><p>But now, Billy has had three retail jobs. First one wasnt much, just working the lay-away dept at Xmas but the other two were better. He worked almost a year up in VA at a 7-11 and then came down here and got on with Radio Shack. He has been there almost 3 years now and they may offer him a managers position in the next couple of weeks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 413342, member: 1514"] Interestingly, while it took Billy quite a long time to actually get a job, he is doing extremely well in retail sales which I would have never thought would be a job for a person with any sort of aspie tendencies. I think having him under my mothers wings for so long actually stunted his growth because she didnt want him to be social or do normal things like get a part-time job. She tried desperately to get him to quit school in his senior year but we put our foot down and brought him back up here to actually graduate but she rushed him straight back down there with her the minute he graduated. We had a job lined up for him for that summer working with Tony to help him lose some of his weight and then he would have gone straight into college in the fall but she would have none of it. Instead it took another two years until she got so sick. Billy didnt have the umph to stand up for himself. But now, Billy has had three retail jobs. First one wasnt much, just working the lay-away dept at Xmas but the other two were better. He worked almost a year up in VA at a 7-11 and then came down here and got on with Radio Shack. He has been there almost 3 years now and they may offer him a managers position in the next couple of weeks. [/QUOTE]
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