Autism Work History

At age thirty, I finally got my four year degree, after ten years of trying, from the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. I then started a checkered work history, ranging from phone solicitor to substitute teacher. By age forty, I was so frustrated and depressed at my work history that I had a nervious break down and went to South Beach Psychiatric Hospital, were I got a job with their second hand shop.

It was there that Tom Siniscalchi offered jobs in a business he was starting, just for the mentally disabled. It was a custom screen printing shop and if they hired you, you weren't there for treatment or training. You were there to work. I had to get that job, so I went to the interview, impressed Tom with my degree and bag of butterscotch candy, and became one of the founding members of Special Tees.

I wish I could say I was still there, but after occupying several positions there, I ended up as a tool and screen cleaner, along side a man with an intellectual disability, my friend and coworker, Micheal Beally. At one point, he said he wished he were intelligent like me, to which I replied, I am as bright as me, and I'm sitting here, doing the same job as you. I hoped it made him feel better, because  it made me feel humiliated. By 2008, I left for medical reasons and never went back.

By Spring 2009, I went to Tom's next business. He too had left Special Tees and started a new custom screen printing shop PossibiliTees. I became the man who found potential customers on the net and gave that information to Tom, for him to solicit. I was quite happy at this job and held it till the business closed down at the end of 2012. After this, I had a short term intenship at a photography shop, finding potential businesses, as I had at PossibiliTees, but here I did some of the soliciting myself. I was quite proud of the fact that I had gotten a job without any consideration for my mental disability. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a short term job. Their internet connection was unreliable. I spent as much time doing nothing as work, so, as an act of conscience, I had to leave, and have done nothing since. 

Do you have a job for me?

Letter to newspapers about Ferguson

Congratulations Ferguson. You have lived down to the worst racial stereotypes. So many people have lost their jobs and businesses because you had to act like the N word. And do you think these businesses will be back? I wouldn't. I expect the owners of the burned out businesses will take their insurance money and reestablish their businesses in a place where there aren't so many N-words. Ferguson will remain a poor, burned out husk for decades!

 

David Rubin
15 Leverett Court
Staten Island, NY 10308

(718) 984-0207
(347) 782-6666

Christmas Dream

I had a dream last night. I dreamt that a local church held a contest for best Christmas display on a house. The pastor said it is how most Christians honor Jesus for Christmas. The usual winner is the house with the most lights and music playing, so one radical Christian got the idea to not add lights to his house, but to make the house itself light up and sing. He got every brick and shingle to glow, and make Christmas music as loud as a subway train. The kids cried, the wife yelled, the neighbors called the cops, but the house owner insisted he had a right to the radical house display based on his First Amendment right to show Jesus how much he loved him.

Resume

David Rubin

200 Murphy Rd

Wilmington, DE 19803

(347)782-6666

daru3@aol.com

Profile

Nearly twenty years of experience from production and maintenance of factory equipment to business solicitor and publicist, getting articles written by industry journals. Received experience and accolades as author and artist. Eager to explore various fields for personal and professional development

Work Experience
Currently working as artist in Wilmington, Delaware area,
Selling my art at local fairs & festivals and online at
 davidsartforsale.blogspot.com

Worked as intern for
Gnome Sculpture Project at the College of Staten Island, July 2017

●       Helped build large wooden gnome sculpture
 on permanent display at College of Staten Island

Fine Art Photos of Staten Island Oct 2012-Mar 2013 

●       Solicited business

●       Developed spreadsheet to record contact responses.

●       Followed up with phone calls to seeming likely prospects.

 Possibili-tees custom Screen Printing of Staten Island 2009 to 2012 

●       Solicited business.

●       Developed spreadsheet to record contact responses.

●       Sought publicity for company by contacting industry publications, which resulted in descriptive articles of our company in two publications: Impressions and Apostrophe magazines

Special Tees Custom Screen printing

●       Cleaning Officer in charge of assuring that tools & screens
 are in good condition and ready for use.

Camp Counselor NY Assoc for Metro-area Autistic Children, Summers of 1991, 1992, 2001 

●       Served as reading counselor for autistic children.
 Convinced Association to use Special Tees as supplier.

Education

College of Staten Island

●        Bachelor of arts, English Literature Major, Jan 1986

●        Associate in Applied Science, Computer Science Major, June 1980

●        Associate in Sciences, Liberal Arts & Science Major, Jan 1980

●        Associate in Arts, Liberal Arts & Science Major, June 1979

Computer Skills

Internet search skills
Basic MS Word

Basic MS Excel

Hobbies
Artist;              

• Sept 2010 Started Amateur Artist Career 
• Established Art blog at daru3-davidart.blogspot.com
• March 2017 Special merit given by Light, Space & Time Art Gallery
• Apr 2013 & Oct 2019 Special Recognition given by Light, Space & Time Art Gallery
• May 4, 2017 Recognized for artistic participation in College of Staten Island               Undergrad Conference on Research, Scholarship & Performance

Author; 

●              Myriad letters to editor published in Staten Island Advance

And NY Daily News

●              Nov 2015 Article on autism published in Polychrome Literary Magazine

Limitations
No driver's licence
Arthritis makes walking & standing difficult 

War For Physical Fitness

I think the drug laws today are ridiculous. Odds are, we're not going to die of a drug overdose. We're most likely to die of smoking, drinking, bad eating habits and lack of exercise. If we want to use the law to make us quit bad habits, we should be arrested if fat, publically drunk or smoking anything.

In jail, we should be forbidden to smoke or drink alcohol. We should be given a salad at every meal with lots of greens. Want dressing on that salad?No, too fatty! Eat it dry. Don't like spinach or cucumber? too bad! Eat it anyway. Then, after every meal, walk a mile on a track.

We should not be released till physicall fit.

This will save a lot more people than any war on marijuanna, cocain or narcotics!

We are not a Christian shop

We are not a Christian shop. We may hire you, but your religion has nothing to do with it.

You will be expected to work with coworkers who may not be Christian, including gays, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, and many others, whom your religion may not agree with.

We do not have Christian policies. Things like holy days will be ignored. You may be expected to work on Christmas, Easter, the Christian Sabath and other holy days, as your coworkers will work their holy days, if needed.

We are not a Christian shop, so, when dealing with the public, you will not show Christian signs or emblems on your person

During your free time, you may proselytize your coworkers, but be expected to be proselytized by Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, Witches, atheists , and others, other than Jews and gays. As far as we know, Jews and gays do not proselytize.

This is not a Christian shop.

Autism on the Rise

It used to be really rare, then it became as common as one in eighty-eight. People have theorized why it's growing. I have my own theory.

First, let me explain what autism is. Autism, for those of you who don't know, is a form of developmental disability, characterized by an inability to deal with other human beings. It's usually associated with intellectual limitations, but there's a subset of autistics that often have superior intelligence. We are called Aspies, short for Asperger syndrome. We have our limitations, but many of us think it's worth it and value our condition. We object to those of you NT's (neuro-typicals) who want to cure us. I, myself, wear a shirt saying my autism make me smarter than you. We also can be rather obsessive over our particular interests. Nobody sweats the details like us, even if it's just a bus schedule.

 A decade ago Thorkil Sonne, a telecommunications executive living in Ringsted, Denmark, as terrified about what the future might hold for his 7-year-old autistic son, Lars. But rather than give in to despair, the middle-aged father started a company, Specialisterne (ASpecialists@ in Danish), which helps high-functioning adults with autistic-spectrum disorders (ASDs) find employment. Today business is booming. Sonne oversees branches in a fourteen countries, including Germany, England, and Spain, and is funneling workers to such IT giants as SAP. Now he has even moved to Delaware to establish a foothold in America.

We object to those of you NT's (neuro-typicals) who want to cure us. I, myself, wear a shirt saying my autism make me smarter than you. We also can be rather obsessive over our particular interests. My theory? I think it's nature taking its course. It's evolution in action! The latest research says we seem to be caused by two mutations. There are certain companies that have taken advantage of our superior abilities and will only hire those of us with our special mutations,

My theory? I think it's nature taking its course. It's evolution in action! The latest research says we seem to be caused by two mutations. There are certain companies, such as my own, that have taken advantage of our superior abilities and will only hire those of us with our special mutations.

Continuing in this vein, I figure it's just a matter of time before the government tries to register and weaponize us and tries to control us. Resisters will be chased by giant robots and men in black.

I think I read too many comic books. That's my autistic obsession.