I just want to draw your attention to a very good article
The article is called;
Best and Worst Jobs for Aspergers Adults
and it was published on the My Aspergers Child blog.
The article gives tips for aspie jobseekers and tips for parents with aspie children in the latter stages of school. It also contains a few good lists of the best and worst types of jobs for aspies.
It's well worth a read.
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My just turned 2 year old has just been diagnosed ppd nos, and they susepct that will change to Aspergers at the next evaluation. So glad I found your blog. Before diagnosis I had often joked to my husband that he was autisitc becuase he took things so literally and was always the last one to get the jokes. Sounds like our story could be similar to yours.
Thanks for your blog, I look forward to following.
Sharon
but for over a decade i worked on a psych ward for schizophrenics. and it clicked fairly well with my personality.
i was able to identify several reasons:
1. schizophrenics are extremely literal, even more than the average person with AS. so, they're communication and ability to process info is very literal, very concrete. interacting with the clients was a fairly straightforward set of interactions.
2. schizohphrenics tend to be fairly shut down, socially speaking. so their interactions fall back into literal-minded scripts, there is very little nuance to their social skills.
3. working with clients who are concrete thinkers involves much, much repetition. you encourage something...and then repeat yourself, over and over, for (in some cases) years. the nature of the work is very slow, very repetetive. meaning that AS traits can click very well with schizophrenic traits. they need exactly what someone on the spectrum can provide: structure and repetition.
anyway. this was my experience, i'm just throwing it out there. thanks for the post.
http://nurseteaspoons.blogspot.com/2011/12/as-and-nursing.html