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Aspies and the degreed professions

Very high indeed. We're very good extrinsic learners and this works to our advantage in terms of self driven education I believe.
 
I know one of mine is! He told me so. We get along pretty well as he speaks my language. A recent conversation, "The test results have come back, you're not dying. Well, you are, we all are, slowly. But not of anything specific..." haha.
 
My Latin professor seems a bit...Aspieish. She ended up telling me that she thinks her daughter has Aspergers. A very neurotypical fellow student was there too, and he said "Don't worry; she doesn't have Aspergers." (I doubt he had any way of knowing.) I think he thought he was being reassuring, or something. But I disliked the fact that he said that.
 
I think that may have offended me also. For two reasons, the first being that they assumed that they could know if someone else had Aspergers and the second being the 'don't worry' element which might imply that having Aspergers would be some kind of tragedy anyway.
 
Being an Aspie has actually benefitted me. It has it social issues, but every rose has its thorns. You don't get pricked if you handle it carefully.
 
Most of the time I feel being an aspie has benefitted me. Occasionally the social issues get to me. Not so much a difficulty with interaction but understanding the seemingly endless rules of social interaction.

Hmm. I think we got off topic a little here haha. My bad.
 
A few of the academics I work amongst show aspie traits, but not a high proportion in any way. Though I think that certain fields are supposed to particularly attract people with aspie traits, computer science for example (my dads a computer scientist and definitely an aspie, my mum is also a computer scientist and definitely not an aspie). Anyway, I can see that there might be, high intelligence and a tendendancy towards obsession are certainly beneficial in getting a decent degree.
 
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