Recently I worked at a financial company with a small, struggling I.T. dept that was willing to hire anyone and everyone who said they could code. I recommended

Recently I worked at a financial company with a small, struggling I.T. dept that was willing to hire anyone and everyone who said they could code. I recommended my cousin, a young comp sci college grad on the Autism spectrum, to work there and he got hired in. He's coming up on completing his first year there shortly. Since he's now had some field experience in software development he gets calls from recruiters often. He's set for supporting himself for the rest of his life now :) He didn't talk about autism with our boss or anyone at the company until after he was hired in. He had gone through tons of interviews and I gave him the best advice I could before the interview. I guess the best advice I could offer is to say try, try, try again, and for the father - remember that being on the Autism spectrum isn't the same as having a disability, but rather just being a little different :)