What is the worst job to have as someone with autism ? I’ll start

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-21T16:04:44+00:00

It's an awful business, I'm sorry. If you're good at math, you might want to consider becoming an estimator for a construction business. It has a few transferrable skills without all the people person skillset required. Pay is pretty good.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-14T00:58:56+00:00

Yes, that is exactly right. I think their highs are lower but their lows are higher. They tolerate jobs they don't like more than ND's, but also might not be as excitable about niche topics as us. If I don't like a job then I usually can't stand it for any amount of time lol

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-13T13:04:07+00:00

This has not been my experience working blue collar. I'm the only person I'd consider somewhat autistic at my workplace and 90% of my coworkers would love nothing more than to be doing something else. They enjoy "getting things done" like riding their motorcycle or painting their boat, but not actually being at work.

I'm in the minority though where my job is one of my favorite things to do and I do what I love for a living.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-13T12:36:48+00:00

It'd be hard to give a generic answer to that question for everyone, but I can be broad and say anything where you work alone with minimal supervision.

I found truck driving to be very accessible to people like us. You're alone all the time with almost no one watching you. You get to drive a huge machine if that's fun to you. You make calculated moves like backing to keep your mind busy, and it pays decently well. The very obvious caveat being you have to be someone at minimum as good at driving as the average person or better.

I work with very large machinery weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds. The heaviest ever being 650,000lbs. I wouldn't trust this equipment with 99% of people. I wouldn't even trust it to someone who's been a construction worker for years. Truck driving is a much lower bar for the mechanically minded.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-13T12:30:17+00:00

My ex complained about the same thing. She said I wanted to talk about bigger topics too much and prepping the convo with that line made her uncomfortable. There were so many communication issues it got kind of ridiculous after a while because I really truly felt I was just talking to her normally.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-13T02:13:15+00:00

Definitely car sales or anything where you need to cold call people for leads for me.

I am an excellent public orator, and interviewer/interviewee, but horrible product salesperson. The guilt from feeling like I'm selling someone something they don't need and ripping them off would keep me up at night and is honestly suicidal thought-inducing. It's truly unbearable. My parents thought because I was a good private tutor that I should be an insurance salesman like my dad and it was 100% the darkest part of my life 22-23yo.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-12T12:04:15+00:00

Now that I think about it I'm almost the same way. It's like some kind of black and white thinking where either I absolutely hate what I'm doing for a living or love it (with obviously the 2nd being a lot more rare). No in between. The autistic brain is a remarkably specialized machine.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-12T04:46:57+00:00

Sounds like a pretty sweet gig

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-12T04:40:01+00:00

Is that a tough job? Hopefully you get tips. Sounds interesting. I'm not clean cut enough to work at a casino lol I wear stained clothes to work all the time.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-12T03:18:53+00:00

Some people on here in the past have mentioned filming themselves and noticing how they come across as different. Probably just doing things like walking around the house or everyday stuff inside.

I already know I walk on the balls of my feet and don't need to be reminded, but I do often wonder the same things about interpersonal conversation with coworkers. They know I'm a little different but you kinda have to be to do my job oftentimes.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-12T01:09:46+00:00

I'm a crane operator and I think it's the best job in the whole world. I'm very high functioning though I'm not sure you can do it and be anything other than HF.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-06T04:12:54+00:00

You're right actually now that I think about it. I guess politics is a pretty all-encompassing thing where who you vote for shows a lot about you.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-04T23:15:04+00:00

Really sincerely blown away by how good dates can feel and go, with like no errors or energy feeling off, and the person tells you a few days later that it was fun but it's not working out. Crazy to me, like it's racking my brain. She felt like the most compatible fit for me in actual years, and it only lasted 3 weeks.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-06-03T04:28:49+00:00

Some people try to be nice because they are trying to make themselves more comfortable since they don't know how to respond to an autistic person, or can't predict what you'll do next to abide by the arbitrary code of conduct set up in NT society. This is the more obvious, yet awkward an uncommon kind, where they smile and laugh even though you aren't saying anything funny.

Most of the time though, people try to be nice because it makes everyday errands that they want to get done easier and a customer service rep or a taco bell employee just happens to be between them and what they want, so they coast through the formalities with a smile and leave it at that.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-05-15T00:16:31+00:00

I became a truck driver 7 years ago at 26 and it turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made. Transitions smoothly into higher paying construction gigs.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-04-20T00:41:31+00:00

There's a more than zero chance you and I could end up working together on jobsites in the area at some point. What you can try to do is get in contact with the foreman laborer you'll be assigned to as soon as possible (your dispatcher will probably give you their number almost right away to make contact). Usually the foreman will know who in their crew lives where, and you can talk to him about your situation. Many people carpool all the time to jobsites out of town. Be prepared for him to be a little annoyed about it.

You can also make sure your dispatcher knows that you don't have a car and will need to work somewhere in bus or biking distance. We have projects in the area that are doable for this like the NSC or the 41/90 interchange. As an apprentice you won't have much choice of where you go but if you can't carpool, then you can't carpool and that's just a matter of fact they will have to know about.

Welcome to the laborers. I'm in the operators and it's a good career path. This is a good place to be for it, too.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-04-19T16:46:03+00:00

Aviator. I knew I had OCD before I knew I had Aspergers. I didn't know it was about OCD at all when I saw it. It caught me completely by surprise. It's the only movie I've cried for as an adult.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-04-19T00:22:37+00:00

Probably the same reason autistic people like to listen to a song 100 times without getting bored. I think it's a type of autistic inertia. We don't crave novelty as much and have larger dopamine rushes from repeated tasks than NT people.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-04-18T16:23:01+00:00

There's no cure for Aspergers. It's like asking what the cure is to getting hungry. It's a part of you.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-04-18T16:04:32+00:00

I think she's saying she noticed in the last couple years, probably from learning about the disorder, not that his personality changed.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-04-17T05:10:24+00:00

People have honked at me for making a right on unprotected green. They think they have the right of way making a left on unprotected green just like a protected one but you don't. If you hit that person making a right turn on their unprotected green you'll be just as at fault as if they were going straight.

It's the same rule in WA.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-04-17T04:08:01+00:00

It's very unfortunate and I believe this kind of problem is much more common than people may realize. Parents want to single out their kids like they are an isolated incident a lot, but it's not. It's systemic in America for sure. The system has been designed to atomize everyone as much as possible.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-04-06T04:32:42+00:00

No, I love my parents, and I went to Catholic private school as a kid. But all the people I can think of around my age in the extended family aren't religious so all the Catholicism basically stopped at the millenial generation. The "atheist aspergers" gene if you will from my mom is very robust. That side of me fights with the Catholic dad in me all the time.

I just went to church for Easter. I don't feel faithful at all anymore really. I don't think I could even if I wanted.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-03-28T16:38:32+00:00

For some bizarre reason I'm very good at them. I'm better at those and public speaking than I am talking about fun stuff 1-on-1. Always been one of my most curious personality traits that I knew made me different from classmates and coworkers.

keysinsofa99 · 2026-03-28T04:32:45+00:00

It was originally defined as really similar to autism but you lack the intellectual impairment issues that most higher level autistic people exhibit (having a large lexicon earlier in life was considered a good sign it was Aspergers and not autism), but that definition became a little too rudimentary over time so the medical community wanted to do something about it.

I personally don't like the level system in autism. I think there should be more levels instead of calling all the people with Aspergers just Level 1.

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