I actually have Asperger Syndrome and I'm a programmer. I was diagnosed by a neurologist in 2008 at the age of 34. There are some interesting comments here. I d

I actually have Asperger Syndrome and I'm a programmer. I was diagnosed by a neurologist in 2008 at the age of 34. There are some interesting comments here. I definitely have seen a few comments from other autistic people on forums about preferring a "menial" job if it meant they could work more or less alone. Some would rather be a filing clerk than a manager in the same department. Many of them do well in academics. Simon Baron-Cohen has said that their research indicates a link between autism and systemizing genes. So people who have the systemizing genes are more likely to enter into professions like math, science and software - which is part of the reason why autism is more common among math majors, and why you often see a history of engineering jobs in the family of a person with autism. http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/research-scientists-more-likely-to-have-autistic-children http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/research-scientists-mo... I wrote up some of my thoughts about this in more detail on my blog here: http://ontap.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/2/AprilAutism http://ontap.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/2/AprilAutis... I myself am working on raising awareness for an effort to improve the employment rate of people with autism called Autelligent Laboratories. The hope is that the business model for this software company can be extended and reused by companies in other industries. http://www.autlabs.com http://www.autlabs.com