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Dynamic choice in a complex world
Murali Agastya, Arkadii Slinko
Journal of Economic Theory July 2015, Vol.158:232–258
doi:10.1016/j.jet.2015.04.001
(I'm sorry: Libgen seems to be currently out of reach.)
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[Need advice] Likely consequences of disclosing you have Asperger's Syndrome - given you have a 2.5 years gap in your resume?
It doesn't sound like chemotaxis101 can easily use a mixed strategy, as he intends to publicly disclose his diagnostic status.
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[Need advice] Likely consequences of disclosing you have Asperger's Syndrome - given you have a 2.5 years gap in your resume?
Note that what I'm going to diclose is the fact I have Asperger's, rather than the underlying (unrelated) reasons for the gap in my resume.
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[Need advice] Likely consequences of disclosing you have Asperger's Syndrome - given you have a 2.5 years gap in your resume?
You are right to be concerned that employers will be afraid to hire you because of your diagnosis, and an unfortunate consequence of the Americans with Disabilities Act (if you are an American) is that they will not be honest about this with you. The worst case from their viewpoint is that they hire you, find you don't fit in, but then are told they can't fire you because doing so would constitute discrimination. To combat this consider offering to first take a temporary part time or internship position so they can get to know you. My guess is that the first sentence of your post would greatly concern most potential employers.
I'm not sure about the timeline of your employment gap, but you might be able to use the fact that you have a special needs child as a justification for it.
There is a reasonable chance that your current employer assigns a high probability to your having autism because (a) of your behavior, (b) being told that your daughter has autism got them to think about autism and connect it with your behavior, and (c) someone realizes that your daughter having autism raises the probability that you have it.
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[Need advice] Likely consequences of disclosing you have Asperger's Syndrome - given you have a 2.5 years gap in your resume?
My autistic daughter is also intellectually disabled. She needs lots of special care, often on a difficult-to-predict basis. It was especially so in the first years following her official diagnosis. Not sure if it's a good thing to mention this, though: I'm afraid the employer could take this as evidence that there's a significant risk that I could some day descend into a poor productivity phase (or even another leave, at no notice). It may also be the case someone could take all this as a positive, by correlating it to a potential underlying disposition or motivation to hard work and responsability, but it seems better not to count on the possibility that this effect could override the first one.
An option would be to tell employers that I was on a leave to take care of a very sick family member (say suffering from the illness I suffered from) that since then has been definitely transferred to a special care facility, while trying to "fill" the gap with some skill-sharpening/expansion activities I did during the period. Classical example being online courses directly related to my main career path. Unfortunately it was not the case, as a I took online courses on online education, while planning to apply for typical engineering jobs. It's still something to show for that time off. I can try to make it applicable - e.g. I can relate it to being able to gain a skill to train others or take team leadership if necessary, or find ways to train people in other offices without having to travel.
Current employer is aware of my somewhat extraordinary circumstances involving both, being a father of a disabled child (my autistic daughter is also intellectually disabled and needs lots of special care, often on an unpredictable basis) and suffering from anxiety disorders myself. The employer was able to offer special working conditions regularly (e.g. working from home during a crisis).
[Need advice] Likely consequences of disclosing you have Asperger's Syndrome - given you have a 2.5 years gap in your resume?
Background
A few years ago I (was forced to) left grad school (halfway into it) because of complications related to a set of anxiety disorders (a typical comorbidity in Autism Spectrum Disorders; I now have a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. I'm also planning to return to grad school next year).
I have a family (2 children). Around the same time I left grad school, we received my daughter's diagnosis (she has more of a classical form of autism), followed by my own diagnosis.
With regards to my professional record, after approx. 2.5 years in grad school and 2.5 years completely out of the job market, I finally began to work at a small consulting firm. They are aware of my daughter's autism, but they don't know of my own diagnosis.
NGO
I'm also vice-president of a local, small, autism-related NGO who is now trying to convince me to disclose my being on the autism spectrum (for publicity and awareness reasons). They are planning to arrange an interview for me at a TV channel. In fact, the decision was already made, as I'm effectively coming out of the closet on December 9th, by means of an interview on a local radio station.
I'm enthusiasticaly in favour of such a move (for both egoistic and altruistic reasons), but am also afraid of potential consequences on my future professional prospects. Also consider that it's likely that I will need a new work position very soon.
In summary, I'm only worried with the fact of also having a track record of being out of the job market for quite some time, so that I'm afraid some hiring manager could be tempted to negatively associate the gap in my resume to my condition.
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"Reversible and Irreversible Decisions: Preference for Consonant Information as a Function of Attractiveness of Decision Alternatives", Pers Soc Psychol Bull December 1981 7: 621-626 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=7564911921849567347&hl=en&as_sdt=0,21 http://psp.sagepub.com/content/7/4/621.short
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Just for sharing an unpretentious but (IMO) interesting post from a blog I regularly read.
In commenting on an article about the results of an experiment aimed at "simulating" a specific case of traumatic brain injury and measuring its supposed effects on solving a particularly difficult problem, economist/game theorist Jeffrey Ely asked whether a successful intervention could ever be designed to give people certain unusual, circumstantially useful skills.
It could be that we have a system that takes in tons of sensory information all of which is potentially available to us at a >conscious level but in practice is finely filtered for just the most relevant details. While the optimal level of detail might >vary with the circumstances the fineness of the filter could have been selected for the average case. That’s the second >best optimum if it is too complex a problem to vary the level of detail according to circumstances. If so, then artificial >intervention could improve on the second-best by suppressing the filter at chosen times.
Any thoughts?
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Incidentally, the blog InDecision has just published - as part of its "Research Heroes" series - a brief interview with the above-cited experimental psychologist Jonathan Baron (one of his books was described as "a more focused and balanced introduction to the subject of rationality than the Sequences" in one of Vaniver's much-useful summaries) and he stressed again his position that "rational thinking is both learnable and part of intelligence itself."
You're right about the paying part. I don't care to even begin worrying about how setting Google Reader to fetch something from beyond a paywall might work, but e-mail from a paid service makes perfect sense, tech-wise.
And now that you mention it, if I were living in an email client instead of Google Reader, I could probably get along just fine having stuff from my RSS subscriptions get pushed into my mailbox. Unfortunately, after 15 years I still use email so little that I basically consider it a hostile alien environment and haven't had enough interesting stuff go on there so far that I'd ever really felt the need to back up my mails. Setting up a proper email workflow and archiving wouldn't be a very big hurdle if I ever got reason to bother with it though.
An actual thing I would like is an archived log of "I read this thing today and it was interesting", preferrably with an archive of the thing. I currently use Google Reader's starring thing for this, but that's leaving stuff I actually do care about archiving at Google's uncertain mercy, which is bad. Directing RSS to email would get me this for free.
Did I just talk myself into possibly starting to use email properly with an use case where I'd mostly be mailing stuff to myself?
I'd recommend using Blogtrottr for turning the content from your RSS feeds into email messages. Indeed, as email is (incidentally) the only web-related tool I can (and must) consistently use throughout the day, I tend to bring a major part of the relevant web content I'm interested in to my email inbox - including twitter status updates, LW Discussion posts, etc.
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Libgen seemed to work fine for this: http://sci-hub.org/downloads/7c30/10.1016@j.jet.2015.04.001.pdf
Thanks! (Probably it was just a temporary issue.)