In 20 years Aspies will not be in the workforce!

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By then, technology will have progressed so much that all jobs that are perfect for Aspies, repetitive, mechanical, systematic, will have been replaced by machines.

I worked for the Australian Electoral Commission counting votes earlier this year. I had the time of my f**king life, and it was a full-time job! Unfortunately the votes could only be counted so many times, and the employment was only ever temporary from the start. If only there were elections every month, I'd have my living sorted!

Only an Aspie could envy a machine. I wish I could have the job of a TAB machine, or a telephone, manually connecting one phone to the phone with the number dialled, or even a calculator, being fed mathematical problems and giving the person the desired, and always correct, result.

I really felt for Charlie's dad in the movie Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. How dare they favour a machine over a human being!?

Thoughts?

Aspies can be good at other jobs too, including science, maths, academia, etc.

So, if "repetitive, mechanical, systematic," jobs become more rare, there will be other things for us to do!

i agree. Also there are famous artists who are aspies, so we can even do creative things.

All jobs are being eaten up by technology... But who's the best at maintaining that technology?

Charlie's dad in the end got a job maintaining/fixing the machine that replaced him

I think there should be more jobs for Aspie/HFA too.

See that's a very good point!

We are!

No machine could ever do my job.

I disagree. In the future, face-to-face communication won't be as important for all jobs, as more people tele-commute (working from home etc), which will suit people with ASD more.

Also, as more people get diagnosed, I think a niche will open up for workplaces that are ASD-friendly, which will take advantage of the particular abilities of people with ASD.

my thoughts go numb if im doing a repetitive job, then i loose count

i get hyped up over problem solving, now THAT is fun!

Two things to fear if you're human.

1. Advent of machines that can do anything humans can (manual dexterity).

2. Advent of true learning AIs.

At that point it's a question of when machines realize they don't need us and nothing we do for a living can't be replaced by a machine.

Actually, now that:

a. we actually carry a label that identifies us as disabled;

b. technology is reducing the number of available jobs; and

c. persons with narcissistic personality disorders are keen to bully us out of the workforce,

probably a lot more of us will be living on disability payments within 20 years.

Unfortunately that might also be true.

We all had the same worries in 1990, we will still have them in 2030. SkyNet is not coming for us any time soon

That's what they want you to think.

I do think Aspies will have a big problem if the buzzwords pushed by management consultants regarding "self-organizing teams," "mass collaboration" or whatever other terms they throw about ever become an actual reality. What my personal experience has been is that the buzzwords get tossed about, everyone bows at the altar of this sort of thing...and then things get done more or less as they always have. Namely, somebody in authority assigns tasks and a bunch of somebody elses not in authority do 'em. And this gets called a "Team" or a "Collaboration" or a "Ripping Up the Organizational Chart."