The glass ceiling is there even for not so prominent cases and it can be an even worse experience. I grew up fine, with minor social issues but was always limit

The glass ceiling is there even for not so prominent cases and it can be an even worse experience. I grew up fine, with minor social issues but was always limited at work due to limited social interaction or for "we do not know why, but it does not seem right to give you a promotion". After my son was diagnosed with Autism and I found out I was an Asperger's it started making more sense. The realisation of the glass ceiling is important, because there are always career paths that do not lead you on top of others but in places no-one else has been. Sometimes, also, you get better in social skills if you do not treat the interaction as such but as engineering a communication flow to achieve a result. When you get the hang of it, it looks like you are a normal communicator. Which goes a long way to explain that you are not exploiting a relationship, you just have to actively process it at a more conceptual level rather than have it cached in your "emotional intelligence".