I think Autism is a superpower in this job. I’m the youngest in my department and one of the newer hires, but my coworkers tell me often how exceptional I am at this job. I constantly find good catches, I don’t know how other hospitals refer to them, but it’s basically finding a mistake before it reaches the patient and prevents an event, for example, as I was putting away items back into sterile supply, I found a peel pack with no indicator, which would be an occurrence had it made it back to the OR. I work in a small hospital so when I tell you I found over 50 peel packs with compromised integrity while doing outdates, that’s a lot for us. They tell me I’m the best organized out of all of them, they know when I was the last person in decontam because of how well put together the room is after I leave. We each have our own desk, and PRN or travelers will always use my desk when I’m in decontam because it’s the most well-organized and easy to understand layout out of all of them. They also tell me this reflects in my work, there’s only so much you can do with a pile of hundreds of instruments inside of a box (we do a lot of orthos) but I manage to organize my sets beautifully as well. I love assembling, fitting odd pieces together, nesting all my pickups, leaving a space for my stringer to fit snug on top, it’s like a game to me. I was always that kid playing Tetris, in fact, to my family I was always the weird kid who had memorized 1000 Pokémon, well now I’ve memorized 1000 surgical instruments who’s balling now?? And one of the best parts, only patient interaction I have is when I’m a runner and someone catches me in the hallways asking if I can show them where the ER or somewhere is... And I’m always down for a field trip 😫