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  • Reading the other thread you cross-posted from and being a nurse myself, I agree with the other comments and answers found in the original thread.

    You don’t have to like the answer but people generally are asking not to be prying but to be social with you and involving you to be inclusive, whether or not you are neurotypical. That is nice of your peers and honestly, practicing these behaviors for your patients too would help with your job. You are encountering individuals at their lowest: when they are most vulnerable, in pain, in discomfort, stressed, anxious, alone, etc. Part of the patient healing process is support and connection with their healthcare team, which would include you. Patients may do the same thing, ask you questions similar to those of your peers to get to know you or form a connection.

    For your peers, you can disclose you are not neurotypical to increase understanding and let them know you are having issues with socialization but there should be some efforts to work with your team as well as with your patients. Healthcare especially in an acute setting as your answers so far has implied is a super social job and if not being social is your thing, there are other positions in healthcare that are not as social in nursing: utilization review, MDS RN, transfer center nurse, picc line vs wound care nurse just for specific tasks, etc.



  • I like my job but I don’t really think its the norm. I loved physiology and anatomy, bio based sciences and was watching a lot of House MD during my senior year of high school (interestingly enough, since then I never had interest in any medical shows ever anymore. Also house wasn’t that great but HS me liked it).

    Chose nursing and was blessed to have always worked around others that actually fucking cared about patients. If working in other hospitals with more jaded or burnt out nurses im sure my experience would be different. Make money too while helping them navigate the current healthcare system. So good pay, nice coworkers, and interest in what I do. Likely never going to be laid off. Most people are not as fortunate.




  • Nothing mind blowing? Only mind blowing course was Sociology. My professor worshipped Bernie Sanders and I appreciated him engaging his students to do better.

    But also, That succeeding in college/university just shows that someone can learn, follow instructions, work in a group, etc. It really is to prepare someone to show up and do the work. I mean everyone is different and there’s just more likelihood of someone being a better person to work with than someone who doesn’t have that structure or ability to absorb info and think.

    I don’t think necessarily that people need higher education but it helps. I tell people I think careerwise it helps to have at least two of the three:

    • skills
    • networking/network
    • higher education

    Know college isn’t for some people and the people I know that are successful are often very skilled or/and have connections, can make connections to get employed where they are.

    Oh and STEM though, I think people 100% need college/university for more specialized fields and STEM like medical professionals, physicists, etc.