Dealing With Rejection Being Autisitc.

As An autistic Person, Dealing Wih With Rejection Can Be A Hard Topic To Deal with, Here is some of the ways I deal with it.

Rejection can feel especially intense when you’ve invested significant effort into a project or job application. For autistic individuals, the emotional weight of rejection may work, and challenges in interpreting feedback. Sometimes it’s a real struggle for myself, but I then overcome & sometimes the feeling still lingers about and I can’t get the feeling out of my system. But let’s talk about how I cope and how I navigate these challenges.

Recognise Your Feelings: So I love putting in a lot of time of effort whenever if it’s casting for TV Shows, Extra Work or Even A Job Application, Once the rejection email comes in, time is frozen and I’m just emotional and sometimes I wanna cry, but it’s a good thing sometimes, it’s okay to cry when it comes to dealing with rejection. Sometimes it can be good sometimes it can be bad it depends on the situation.

Allow Time to Process: Time Is A Factor for myself and sometimes I need all the time in the world, I honestly think when I get the rejection, I just don’t know what to do. I sometimes feel burned out or even feel overwhelmed on why people don’t understand why they don’t want me. Or someone that is better than me.

Affirm Your Effort:

After my emotional rollercoaster, I sometimes think, “alright, okay, I done well to get this far, let’s try again some other time” then I can move on to something that will motivate me to keep going and try to carry on with my day so I’m not feeling drained and upset about the news I received.

Detach Identity from Outcome: All The Applications I do is a learning process, you know I thought sometimes, you know I could give a go at this. Or why not I try it and see what happens, yes I it’s high chance of not getting it but I would love it give it a try and see what happens.

Analyze Constructive Feedback:

Sometimes feedback isn’t always available for myself, but I think to myself, how can I get be that one better. As an autistic person, sometimes, it can be challenging to find out why I didn’t get it, but as optimistic as myself, I like to think, if I got to the final 5 or even the top 20, it’s an achievement in itself, so I say to myself, let’s go again when applications open again. I can also set up some little goals for myself if I don’t understand something, maybe we should take a different approach to something or even just try something completely new.

Sharing my stories about my experiences with autism can help others understand the emotional and understanding of the neurological system. That’s why I’ve started Autism & Adam, to talk about my experiences with autism and how I can help others to understand how they can relate to their own feelings and experience .