Guys, I have to look at it as an opportunity...

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I'm pretty high functioning, genius level, and I've learned to avoid cocktail party chatter death...

I'm also job hunting.

Personally, I can't see why someone would avoid hiring an aspie... I've somewhat managed to learn to point the geek at problems, and let him rage - It may turn into a few all nighters, but when I'm through, I'm the subject matter expert for the material...

Was this post intended to be taken seriously?

I have an ASD; according to my IQ I'm highly intelligent; I have at least one postgraduate degree; I've also served on hiring committees in the past.

If you come off in a conceited manner in an interview, you're not going to get hired. You also haven't indicated what skills or qualifications you have that would lead an employer to consider you employable. I can also synthesize large amounts of information/data rapidly, but I need to sell that to an employer in terms of the applicability to the position for which I'm applying.

The ability to carry out limited smalltalk/cocktail party conversations can be an extraordinary benefit in most fields.

Well, I've got a BA in public relations (mostly a techie), and experience in everything from journalism through tech writing through graphic design... I'm currently working with a company that does continuing education training for healthcare professionals. I'm constantly talking about the subjects with the end users. Fun part is that when I started this, I basically knew zip about the field.

The hard part isn't assimilating the knowledge - the hard part is finding it.

Cocktail party chatter seems to be fine if it is about something like sports, but geeking out, and explaining to someone, at length, about how different wounds heal with presented with different environments, when they're wanting to talk about sports, is generally frowned upon. Sometimes the hard part is knowing when to shut up...

When presented with two candidates, one neurotypical, and one aspie, when dealing with a technical subject, I'd go with the aspie almost any day...

I do have that problem with smalltalk/chatter as well; sometimes I really want to talk about something I'm interested in and not sports, and I miss that the people I'm talking to aren't interested.

When I was working for The Big Drug Company, when I'd lunch with other people, it was researchers, and we'd be talking about work... Which was fun and interesting.

Then they took away my red Swingline, and moved me to the basement, where I was assigned to the Facilities folks, who seemed to have a serious handle on the "put your butt in a cubicle and drain away your brain" routine... Where I remained for about 4-5 years... When I had to have lunch with them, they were usually talking about professional sports, golf, or some other stuff. Some of them had No Idea what the facility was actually doing as far as research.

When I worked upstairs, I got perk tickets to concerts, symphony, that sort of thing.

After I got moved downstairs, I got perk tickets to professional wrestling.

Sigh.

They will judge you on your EQ, not on your IQ.
Sense, it makes none. But they do.
So if you wish to get hired, fake your EQ. Practice practice practice.

The EQ you present will be the very foundation of all other fancy things you have to offer. SUCH AS:
1. Your IQ!
2. Your creativity!
3. Your experience!

But EQ comes first. Always.