If you are classified as a dependent student (most college students under 25) then you are legally able to be covered on your parents insurance.
Do your parents have insurance?
Secondly, when it comes to job interviews, nothing you said about abstract thought should ever even come into the discussion.
You need to act interested (hopefully in whatever job you apply for you will be interested in), answer their questions, and sell your skills and personality. You can easily read about this on the internet.
Mimicking is when you imitate exactly what the other person says. If you do that you will not get the job. You can try to pace yourself, but if you raise your arm when the interviewer raises his arm, you'll not present very well.
I think what seems to be at hand is not that you are unable to communicate--you are doing that quite well here, and it isn't all that abstract; it is more that you are lacking in self-confidence and you are putting yourself down. There are no merits to putting yourself down as you are. You need to build your self confidence by focusing on what you do well, and by reducing what you don't do well.
For a job interview, you need to research interviewing skills. You need to know how to dress and how to speak so that you appear confident. My university offers all of these job hunting/interviewing things for free.
I never did like university counselors. The private sector is almost always better but you have to deal with what you have to deal with unless you get on your parents insurance, or borrow some money from them (unless you work a job).
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Originally Posted by Taonuviel
i don't have insurance to pay for testing.
i've expressed these to some degree - it hasn't been very long and i don't communicate very quickly. it was on the topic of being unable to communicate in the context of upcoming job interviews that he said he really didn't have any ideas on how i could work on that after we had talked out average preparation possibilities.
i really think there is no answer, so him not knowing what to do makes perfect sense...
the most i can do is learn to mimick. and that's really obvious as fake.
actually, it almost seems easier to talk about emotions, and i know what the problems are, aside from anything undiagnosed.
i think abstractly. i see concepts as a clump, a conglomeration of parts that fit together as a whole, which i feel i totally understand, but cannot describe verbally. i could type it out with some time; as i'm seeing it in words i can see what i've said and where i'm going, and modify if necessary, and take my time in expressing it.
it doesn't help that my memory is so dysfunctional that i lose ideas as i'm trying to verbalize them.
i'm always proactive... though i have no confidence i'll get anywhere. when i've tried everything i can find while believing i'd find something to work and after a decade of doing everything right have no progress i naturally stop believing/hoping...
i see him through uni. i'm supposed to graduate in april, possibly having incompletes into the summer, which might prolong when i can see him for another month but may not since i won't have any classes registered in that term. after that i won't be able to see anyone since i have no insurance.
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