Wednesday, January 18, 2012

I'm high functioning Asperger's, how do I avoid being discriminated against in interviews?

I am a software engineer with Asperger's and depression that tend to interfere with people skills. I do very well with what I have but there are still limits that some people still detect as "wierd vibes". If I am competing with normal people I am almost never given an offer. I have occasionally tried mentioning the truth and citing ADA to protect myself but that doesn't help only makes it worse. With offshoring there seems to be no room left for compensators like myself who were previously tolerated during the Sputnik era but in this deindustrialized age all the niches have been taken away. I have been unemployed for 2 years and feel like a complete waste of training.

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