Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm quite curious what kind of work do people here do? I've seen from some comments in other threads that there are social workers and teachers out there. The stereotypical autism job is computer programmer, which I think is really cool and requires lots of talent. There are also students on this forum (I'd be interested to know what you're studying).
Also, what jobs do you think are well-suited for the autistic personality?
Broadly I am a Systems Engineer (computers, electrics, electronics, mechanical, hydraulics, Pneumatics) with a hobby/background in Personal Computers since the early 1980's.
I can visualise across Automotive, military, naval, space, aviation and home automation and provide excellent analogies to get those less technical to understand.
Wow
Cool! So many engineers here.
I want to follow up on the analogies... if I may?
I 'self-label' as having 'analogy Tourette's' - I'm a Business Analyst and use them all the time to facilitate understanding of non-technical stakeholders of technical (and sometimes non-technical!) issues, solutions concepts etc.
I have had people say on numerous occasions "I wish I could have put it like that..." usually after I've got frustrated by someone's Nth abortive attempt to explain something to the room and I've stepped in...
I'm also a highly visual thinker...
Is this an ASD thing?
I am also CEng :) but in civil engineering (concrete ftw!) I manage a team of design engineers (bridges, roads and drainage)
Me too - but I'm a CEng.