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My sister's a PA and she said there are tons of Aspies in Silicon Valley doing computer programming.

I was born there. That was before it was known as Silicon Valley.

I used to live there - in college and for years afterwards. I miss it. It's totally unaffordable to live there now though. Unless you started an internet giant like some of my classmates. Sigh.

Yeah, tons of Aspie types and lots of NTs who are used to Aspies so we're not as weird to them as we are to people in other places.

I just moved from Palo Alto to New Jersey. Lived in Palo Alto for 60 years. Worked in the computer industry for awhile, and that wasn't my experience. Realities (at the present time) there are damned few jobs out there (take a ride in any industrial park...specifically the ones around Bernardo Ave in Sunnyvale....or actually out through the Stanford Industrial Park where Xerox PARC used to be. Or downt he Central Expressway. There are so many empty buildings there it's not funny.

I also worked at SRI in Menlo Park for a number of years. Lots of very eccentric people, but most with PhD's and when you got to talking to them (after you got to know them) they were just wrapped up in what they were doing. They wern't AS.

Which is not to say that I'm trying to be discouraging. I'm just telling you that with the economy what it is, if you've got a computer science degree (and you graduated at the top of your class) You MIGHT get a job out there. Otherwise, a lot of the maintenance that has to be done on programs has been outsourced overseas. I for one, don't want to move to India.

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THAT'S where the commune should be! OMG; I never thought of it! We should all move to our homeland, our promised land, Silicon Valley!

I actually mentioned Salt Lake City in another WP Thread when I was thinking of Silicone Valley.

I am sure their are plenty of both NT and AS individuals who do work at Silicon Valley. AS individuals make excellent computer people but just remember their are far more NT's obviosuly then AS individuals and I think their are plenty of NT people, some I know, who are just as good as any AS person when it comes to computers. Just because someone works with computers does not mean they have AS.

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I wouldn't be caught dead working with computers.

Hehehe, im flattered . Heh, seriously tho, while I dont mind computers, I dont know if I would like a job working with them. Data entry could be ok for a while, but they would have to pay me well cause I could not do it for life, too boring, that and I would probably get fat (tho I could use a little weight on my skinny ass). Im with you man, no computer work, its only for fun my computer.

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MOST work with computers because they can use excuses, cheat, and still make a good living.

I got into it without knowing how things would end up.

Hey, I just moved from Mountain View to New Jersey (central NJ, commuting into the city every day)! Although I'd only been in Silicon Valley since my Stanford days. I was class of '92 so it's all my classmates who practically created the whole internet. I wasn't into computers so I'd often, quite often, find myself in social situations where I had not the slightest idea what anyone was talking about, which is more uncomfortable than the usual social awkwardness. But at the same time, I thought there were more Aspies there than there are here, and a great deal more tolerance for Aspie or geeky or just different behavior. And there you could be as comfortable/unfashionable as you wanted and no one cared, while here I feel immense pressure to waste money on fashion or be treated like dirt.

But Silicon Valley is way too expensive to live in now - while the housing price bubble never burst, the internet startup bubble burst long ago.

I am not in the valley, I am in the corporate headquarters heaven Calabasas, California.

I am a senior software engineer (Architect, coder, supervisor) for a big bank
10-20% of my co-workers are aspies, 98% of the people I deal with are "aspie tolerant"). It's really very nice to be in an environment where hyperfocus, obsessive design/organization, technical language (as opposed to emotional), and some of my other aspie traits are not just tolerated, they are treasured and well compensated.

It is like being home. Of course if I could get in at google or yahoo or the other giants I would do it in a heart beat... but I am glad to live and work where I do.

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I grew up in Silicon Valley, but I'd rather move somewhere else along the west coast after school.