Jeff Atwood's was the top match in DuckDuckGo for "asperger's and programming". But sure, he can be controversial. Here is the second top match from 2008: http

Jeff Atwood's was the top match in DuckDuckGo for "asperger's and programming". But sure, he can be controversial. Here is the second top match from 2008: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2536193/it-management-asperger-s-and-it-dark-secret-or-open-secret.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2536193/it-management-... From there: ====== Asperger's and IT: Dark secret or open secret? Asperger's Syndrome has been a part of IT for as long as there's been IT. So why aren't we doing better by the Aspies among us? ... He loved the tech parts of being a system administrator, and he was good at them. But the interpersonal interactions that went along with the position -- the hearty backslaps from random users, the impromptu meetings -- were literally unbearable for Ryno. "I can make your systems efficient and lower your downtime," he says. "I cannot make your users happy." ... While careful to protect his clients' confidentiality, Becker confirms that he sees many adults and children of adults who work for the region's tech powerhouses -- Microsoft Corp. and The Boeing Co. -- and the hundreds of smaller companies that orbit around them. Some of the Aspies he counsels are at the very top of their tech game: software and aerospace engineers, computer scientists, Ph.Ds. But for every research fellow with Asperger's, he says, there are a legion of fellow Aspies having a much tougher time in the middle or low ranks of the industry. "The spectrum of success is much broader than one would expect," agrees Roger Meyer, the Portland, Ore.-based author of The Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook who runs one of the oldest peer-led adult Asperger's groups in the country. "Adults who have grown sophisticated at masking and adaptive behaviors can either bubble along at the bottom of the market or do very well at the top." It's that "bubbling along at the bottom" that has Becker, Meyer and other Aspie specialists concerned. Employees with Asperger's might do well for years in data entry or working in a job like insurance claims, where knowledge of ephemera is a prized work skill, only to flounder when they're promoted to a position that requires a higher degree of social interaction." ======