What does it mean for an employer to hire an ASD employee?

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Last year I lost 4 jobs for various reasons. In two cases, my (former) employers knew beforehand that I was ASD.

My first boss already knew my hard, serious, committed work - but he ridiculed me in our last phone call. It was something like "let me teach you again the letters of the alphabet: A, B, C". Months again he contacted me, but he simply wanted to hire me and pay around USD 100 which is ridiculously low even for brazilian standards. "Our expenses cannot be higher than USD 100, I believe our client will accept it". Time passed since then and I still cannot believe he, an experienced director and team manager who once told in a meeting "he is carrying our admin team on his own!" (he was talking about me, I wasn't present at that moment), was able to ridicule me.

The second one fired me after 4 days under completely false, fabricated stories. I strongly claimed innocence but to no avail.

It looks like it makes no difference to me to say I'm ASD because I will be fired anyway. I lost lots of jobs in all my professional life and almost none of my former bosses called me back.

So I need some opinions on this matter. Does an employer see an ASD employee as a potential source of trouble? This is why once I told: my cure isn't in me, is in "normal" people and their attitude of acceptance and respect towards ASD people. But please have your say.

Depends on the job. It is highly unlikely that a non autistic person could do many of the valuable things that I have been able to accomplish for my place of employment. And, amazingly enough, I am one of the best on staff at dealing with difficult customers.

I've learned how to transition in and out of a flow state very quickly. A flow state allows me to work extremely rapidly and tune out the outside world.

I've learned how to listen and draw information from customers without revealing too much. This allows better control of the conversation.

I certainly helps that I'm working in one of my special interests. I was already an expert before I got hired for my first job. I got a job offer the day I was interviewed.