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SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
1. Someone should start a similar
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 07:22 PM
Feb 2012

service in this country.

I really like it that they work on teaching the Aspies specific social skills.

My son with Asperger's is a phenomenal employee precisely because he just does the work. He's fortunate to have found a CAD job recently. It's been a contract position and has so far been extended three months beyond the original six month term. I understand that the location where he works (it's a relatively small office of a large engineering firm with offices and work sites all around the world) would like to get him on permanently, and keep on extending him while they try to persuade the home office.

Not long out of high school he had a part time job entering data from a large medical research study, and they just loved him there. They found they could stick him in a back room, he'd enter the data all day, and emerge at closing time.

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