who's making a living from their aspie talent ?

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Well, I really love drama and I'm good at it. I had wanted to be a drama teacher but my mum thought because of my Aspie traits I won't be able to do it. One day I did some research and found out about drama therapy for autistic children to help them with social skills. At that I thought drama therapist would be the perfect job for me. I would be helping people who are like me in a way to get by in life, and I'd be using what I love to do so.

My 2nd, part-time career is professional acting. I probably make a couple grand a year from it - enough for gas and fun stuff, but not really "making a living".

Admittedly, I don't have a full-time paid job however I am in the process of getting there. My special interest is horses and at the moment I am just competing and getting paid to ride others horses. I have got myself a well known UK sponsor which will hopefully raise my profile in the equine world. Looking ahead I would ideally like to be producing dressage ponies for the junior and young rider teams.

I would love to develop games for a living. Games are definitely my special interest/obsession. And I don't mean just playing them. Everything about them interests me, from coming up with ideas, drawing concept art, working out the mechanics, putting on the finishing touches, and everything in between. When I say that I want to study game design, too many people assume that I just want to play games for a living.

yes, I have my SI with computers and network, so IT is what I am and what I do. These days I am a Operations IT Coordinator for a company which archives and digitalize the documents any company needs to archive for at least 10 years, but need to optimise the room and cannot store sooo much paper documents and as well need fast electronical access to these documents. So, the company I am working for scans these documents, indexes, validates ad archives them and giving access to them for the customers via Internet ftp or other ways. In order to run such a scanning track factory, these scanners and computers and server etc. and different software in use, needs to run without error for the employees to work with. But no, nothing runs perfect all the time. New contracts, new scanning jobs needs new configs, new software, new ways to get the jobs done and so the IT has to keep up to it. But every department aand everyone was communicating with the IT for themselfs and it all was pretty uncoordinated and too much time got lost dealing with IT errors and communication errors. Now, my job got created because of this mess. I am the one who has the business and the IT knowledge, as well speaking both languages. The company sits in Germany where I work, but the head of IT and many IT departments are in the UK. So, I speak english and german and exactly needs that every day. So, I do this call/ticket management and coordinating of all the dayly issues. Very stressy to do this partly as a callcentre and IT Management centre. But I am of use, much of use and things are getting done this way better.

I taught myself ecommerce architecture and webmester'd a network of websites that grossed a century less than 7 figures in 2009.

ME! And I'm SO excited about it. John Elder Robison is writing the forward to my book! I'm writing a book!