What if I became a researcher of my own AS?

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Just considering this as a career possibility. I read an interview about a guy with AS who actually did go into social research. Is this even plausible as a career? It would be good if I could take some goal in life that would allow me to help better the lives of fellow aspies (for those who want it anyway )

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I am not sure how to understand the last post.

If you want do research then it must be original, for instance I could never get money to work on the production of prototype squat cylinder objects made of rubber filled with air to assist in the transport of persons and goods (Wheels). So you can not do exactly the same research as the other person is doing.

But if another person is already doing research on AS, then it shows that it is possible for an aspie to do research on AS.

I would suggest that you should consider the question of what exactly you want to do research on, who you are, what degree or other qualifications you have and who you could work for. Many people do their first major bit of research in their PhD in the physical sciences, if you want to do a PhD as a way of doing the research into AS then I would suggest that you should contact one of the major AS researchers and try to find out if they know someone with funding who might be willing to take you on as a PhD student.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

Doing research on AS requires either a Master's degree or Ph.D in psychology if you want to study the behavioral aspects of it, due to the fact that it requires knowledge about diagnosing people. And, I'm not very sure about this, but I think it might also require a little bit of a background in psychotherapy. If you want to study the physical aspects of AS that have to do with how the brain works, then that requires grad school in psychobiology, neoroscience, or a background that both includes psychology and biology. It's a good idea to research the requirements and the universities that interest you, of course.
As a fellow Aspie doing research on other Aspies, you might come up with better insights than other researchers.