Autism and Employment

I only officially learned I had Asperger’s several months ago, but I came to realize I was on the spectrum several years ago as I was researching my son’s autism. As I shared what I learned, my wife and brother both kept asking me if I was perhaps autistic. Since autism is associated with language delay, and I certainly had not had a language delay — rather, language acceleration — I was certain I wasn’t autistic. But what I was learning about autism certainly described me and my childhood. I didn’t line things up, but I did make lists upon lists upon lists. It turns out that list-making is a form of “lining things up.” Further, my thinking is bottom-up, I have an excellent long-term memory, but horrible short term memory, I am a pattern thinker, I am very analytical, but not very strategic, I have social anxiety, I misread social cues all the time, and my eyes wander when I speak to people (though that had been pointed out in the past enough that I had tried to fix it). I could go on and on, but the sum of the list of stereotypical traits all pointed to my being on the autism spectrum. <a href="https://troycamplin.medium.com/autism-and-employment-37f90085e938">Learn More</a>