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Asperger's/PDD

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

1. No surprise to me.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Oct 15, 2014, 07:37 PM

Oct 2014

Of course, that would only apply to certain kinds of jobs. A while back my Aspie son had a summer job doing some date input for some doctors related to research they'd been doing. He'd get to the office, they'd put him in an empty room and he'd go to work. At the end of the day he'd come out, and they'd have forgotten all about him, because he just quietly worked by himself. They loved him.

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PayPal co-founder says workers with Asperger’s more effective than workers with MBA (xpost from GD) [View all] KamaAina Oct 2014 OP

No surprise to me. SheilaT Oct 2014 #1

That's pretty much how I got into medical lab and blood bank work. hunter Oct 2014 #2

I once made the mistake of asking my Aspie son if he'd SheilaT Oct 2014 #3

OMG, that sounds so much like me it's funny. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #5

Aha! SheilaT Nov 2014 #6

I've always had people complement me on my work ethic. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #4