Lit, when you did your 'delete what is in blue' I really found that most helpful. Anybodys feedback is appreciated. Thank you!

And, yes. I do have a college degree. But if I cannot sit or stand for more than 1.5 hours without needing an hour on my bed to recover and then repeat the whole process again - AND have poor cognition due to the pain - what can of job could I do? Everyday is BAD.

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FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS: ALL THE THINGS THAT WROTE ABOVE ON THE TOPICS OF, ‘TALKING’, ‘MEMORY’, ‘COMPLETING TASKS’, ‘CONCENTRATION’ AND ‘UNDERSTANDING’ – APPLY TO THE CURRENT TOPIC OF ‘FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS’. AGAIN, IF ONE TELLS ME, I WILL FORGET WITHIN 2 MINUTES, 95% OF WHAT THEY TOLD ME. THEREFORE, I EXPLAIN TO THEM MY PROBLEMS OF COGNITION AND ASK THEM TO ALLOW ME TO WRITE THINGS DOWN – STEP, BY STEP, BY STEP. EVEN WITH THIS, I HAVE SUCCESS MAYBE HALF THE TIME BECAUSE I TRY TO WRITE THE STEPS DOWN TOO QUICKLY AS TO NOT INCONVENIENCE THE PERSON. IN MY HASTE, OFTEN TIMES I CANNOT READ OR EVEN UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTIONS I HAD JUST WRITTEN DOWN. OFTEN TIMES I WILL ASK THE PERSON ‘CAN YOU SAY THAT IN A DIFFERENT WAY? I AM NOT UNDERSTANDING?’. OR, I WILL PARAPHRASE WHAT I THINK I HEARD BACK TO THE PERSON. OFTEN TIMES I WILL SAY, ‘IT WORKS BETTER FOR ME IF I SAY IT MY WAY . . . SO WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO TELL ME IS xxxx? IS THAT CORRECT?’ I CALL THIS SPEAKING IN ‘xxxxISM’. 90% OF THE TIME I EXPLAIN MY PROBLEM WITH COGNITION AND CONCENTRATION AND ASK THEM TO SAY THINGS TO ME AT A SLOWER RATE OF SPEED AND WITH ONE (2 STEPS MAX) AT A TIME.

USING HANDS: MUCH OF WHAT I WROTE AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS DOCUMENT ABOUT ‘LIFTING’, APPLIES TO MY HANDS. WHEN MY HANDS ARE HAVING A REALLY BAD DAY (THIS HAPPENS 2-3 TIMES PER WEEK/5-6 INSTANCES PER DAY), I DROP OBJECTS. USUALLY THIS ARE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS MY EYE-GLASSES OR A SET OF KEYS. HOWEVER, ABOUT ONCE A WEEK IT WILL BE A LARGER OBJECT SUCH AS A CAN OF SOUP. AFTER HAVING DROPPED AND HAD A DRINKING GLASS SHATTER ON MY FLOOR AT LEAST TWICE OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I HAVE THROWN AWAY ALL MY GLASS DRINKING GLASSES AND REPLACED THEM WITH PLASTIC ONES.

GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS: BY NATURE I AM INTROVERTED. THEREFORE, I TEND TO STAY WITHIN MYSELF. I DO NOT LIKE ‘SMALL TALK’. IT BORES ME TO TEARS. THAT BEING THE CASE, I OFTEN TRY TO DISCUSS THINGS THAT WE AS A SOCIETY ARE TOLD ‘NOT TO DISCUSS’. RELIGION, POLITICS, ETC. 95% OF THE TIME, THESE DIGRESS INTO THE OTHER PERSON GETTING MAD. I DON'T GET MAD. I WAS JUST HAVING FUN. I TRY TO EXPLAIN TO THEM, ‘IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL! IT IS JUST THE ‘ARENA OF IDEAS’”. BUT MOST DON'T SEE IT THAT WAY. I TEND TO HAVE OPINIONS THAT DO NOT FIT THE MAINSTREAM. AND IN THE PAST, I PRIDED MYSELF IN SHARING MY ALTERNATIVE POINTS OF FEW. WHEN I WAS TEACHING SCHOOL – I WOULD NOT BE AFRAID TO TELL ‘THE EMPEROR’ (IE. THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL) THAT THEY WERE ‘WEARING NO PANTS’. ADDITIONALLY, WHEN ALL THE PE TEACHERS WOULD MEET TOGETHER FOR MEETINGS – I AGAIN, DISAGREED 95% OF THE TIME WITH WHAT I THOUGHT WERE VERY DUMB IDEAS AS THEY PERTAINED TO OUR CONTENT AREA. MY CONDUCT WITH OTHERS, WAS PROBABLY BE BIGGEST THING THAT GOT ME ON A YEAR AND A HALF ‘PROBATION’ (THIS PERIOD WAS FROM XXX 20xxx – blah 20^^). IT WAS CALLED A ‘PLAN OF ASSISTANCE (IE. POA).’ BASICALLY IT WAS A ‘PLAY NICE WITH OTHERS, OR GET FIRED’ KIND OF DEAL. BELOW WILL BE DIRECT QUOTES FROM MY POA. I TAUGHT AT TWO SCHOOLS. THE POA WAS A DOCUMENT CREATED COLLABORATIVELY BY THE TWO PRINCIPALS.
POA DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE DOCUMENT:


· Interacts inappropriately (verbal/written) with students, coworkers, and administrators.

In order to assist Mr. ** in addressing students, coworkers, parents, and administrators in appropriate, respectful, face-to-face communications, administrators will conduct formal and informal observations, document conversations, and monitor teacher/student/parent communications.

· Furthermore:

· This . . . plan . . . highlights your deficiencies as a professional educator. These are serious enough to admonish you and give notice of deficiencies. . . Failure to correct these deficiencies will result in a recommendation for your suspension, non-reemployment, or dismissal.

END OF QUOTE – AND END OF “REMARKS – SECTION D – INFORMATION ABOUT ABILITIES”