>The longest I've ever been able to hold a job was about three years. Arbitrary rules and meddling management is like torture to me. Corporate culture is utterl

>The longest I've ever been able to hold a job was about three years. Arbitrary rules and meddling management is like torture to me. Corporate culture is utterly intolerable. The workplace, especially corporate culture, is specifically designed to discriminate, punish, and ultimately eject Autistic people. >My present job is as the R&D department. Just me. We should have three people doing my job, but I am an absolute force of nature once something catches my attention. You 10x engineer you. >When pushed, I can be an eloquent presenter, a respectable and personable engineer, I can talk to hundreds of strangers at CES and show them the demo. I can do or be whatever is needed, it's just a different mask. But the cost is very steep. After three or four days of CES, it took me months to recover. Only months? I know better then to go do that sort of thing. Someone else can go do those things. Not me. >Fundamentally, understand that autistic people are just people. We want to fit in and get along as much as anyone. And if you're on a part of the spectrum where you can be a successful developer, you're probably very aware of your differences and limitations. But no one gave us the book that the rest of you play from. We need clear, well-defined rules with logical, coherent reasoning behind them. If rules don't make sense, they'll be broken when convenient. But if you punish me for breaking a rule I didn't know about, you might as well have killed my dog. Absolute mortal enemy, never forgive, never forget. Oh, gotta love when you haven't actually broken any rules but you're being punished anyway. Oh man... the story of my life.