Are Aspies Unemployable - Who is working studying unemployed

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Employed full time for over a year as a computer programmer, miserable. Too much forced interaction. It seems like someone is dropping by my cube to ask me some stupid s**t 10-15 times a day and I can never get into the zone.

I was getting that all the time too, so I talked to my boss about my productivity. Now I've got an office.

I'm voluntarily unemployed but looking for a job, so I don't have a category. I was a computer operator from late 1978 to mid-1980. Then I was a COBOL programmer from 1980-2003. Later, I ran a check sorter and reconciled check sorter runs at a bank. My last job was setting up electronic data transfer jobs at a health insurance company.

We are employable and enjoyable. Not to mention tasty.

I'm self employed as a UNIX consultant. I work from home and SSH into customers systems to do my work.
I'm a bit of a jack of all trades. I figured if the guys in india can do it I can live in a rural area and sell myself for a reasonable price. seems to be working out nicely so far except that its a constant battle to stay motivated and
focused and on task. but So far God has done amazing things for me as far as getting customers despite me being socially clueless and no good at all at marketing. I'm listed in a few key places as a consultant and somehow people just find me. I have a few good customers that pay my bills and its been the best job ive ever had.

It's a big challenge though since I loathe paperwork and keeping the books balanced and everything caught up is really really hard. A lot of people think you are your own boss, but in reality you just trade one boss for many bosses.


Still being able to work from home is one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Right now a web developer, also currently in school. I find myself working at home more than at work though, for the same reason as others specified before me...I get too distracted at work. (Although at home staying motivated is a bit of a pain as well)

I work full time as a postal clerk. I had been a carrier for almost ten years before 'going inside', and I am having one heck of a time adjusting. The carriers treated me well, but the clerks...treat me as bad as they treat the custodian that had a severe brain injury from a car accident.

I am doing a degree (English language and literature, "Genre poetics of William Golding's 'The double tongue'") and work as well.

I am not sure whether I would be considered to be working part time or full time, since I have several jobs, but none of them is a traditional nine-to-five one. I work as a translator (I'm employed at a translating agency, and I also take translations a friend sends to me on a regular basis, as well as accepting random requests), I teach students English privately, and I work four hours a day at a local call center. In effect, I usually spend a longer time working than people who work eight hours a day at a single job, though some could have trouble perceiving me as "seriously employed" or whatever.

I just have my programmers wear noise canceling headphones. They can hook them up to a radio, CD player, or mp3 player. Just as long as they are not hogging bandwidth by streaming. Much cheaper than an office, and people have been told to leave them alone when they have the big headphones on.

Unemployed, not by choice topic

I have had eleven jobs in the past eleven months due not to Asperger's but because of dyspraxia. I have a physical disability which makes co-ordinating movement difficult. Employers are impatient and unsympathetic. Money is the bottom line. Due to my age I do not qualify for money for retraining. Due to my age I do not qualify for a senior's pension. I have applied for employment insurance benefits and for disability. As I age the dyspraxia is getting worse.

Having Asperger's makes a person creative, not unemployable.

I would probably call BS on that statistic. I don't suppose they provided a source?

I would say it affects standard of living, however, i.e. chronic underachievement.

I am a student, working part time and loking for a co-op through the school for more money

I'd certainly agree that's true for most of us.

That statistic sounds like BS to me. What is the source?

I can get some anxiety related to the interview process, and I don't fit into the whole "office gang" all that well, but that doesn't really bother me. I've had lots of "jobs," and have just waded into my new career, as I'm finishing my second degree. I've almost always held at least one job, even during college and nursing school. BUT I don't think I could ever work in a field where a lot of social networking is required...unemployable there.

PS--I work with behaviorally challenged Autistic children and adolescents.

I never got the source, it was simply mentioned in a comment on my blog.

I want to be in a position to say that it's wrong - As far as I can tell, I already have enough here to feel confident in saying that.

The post of the person who supplied that statistic is amazingly articulate for her age (18, as she mentions later in her post). Take this, for example: "I mean, until you're 18, and perhaps even a little beyond, you are not treated as a responsible, worthy person with all due rights. Instead, you are made to feel inferior because "you're not the one who earns" - or at least that is what I felt."

I'm not saying that makes the case for the accuracy of the statistic more solid, but there are definitely some remarkable insights there.

*edit*

I was glancing over some Asperger info and stumbled over this quote by chance:

"The unemployment rate on the spectrum is somewhere around 90 percent, which is unacceptable." Jean-Paul Bovee, MAAP Services

Link: http://www.maapservices.org/Publication ... rticle.asp

In The Netherlands you can get government support when you are too disabled too work. But when people tried to work a parttime job besides that (too low pay to life from) they where going down on income, so that was not a motivation to get a job. That would explain for some unemployment in NL. Maybe a similar thing is in other European countries.