Aspies with other Aspies as co-workers?

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Throughout my employment history, which has been very good (in the IT sector, no less!) I can only say that there was one guy I worked with who exhibited Asperger-like traits, and of course, they weren't quite the same as mine (when you've met one person with Aspergers, you've met one person with Aspergers ) funny thing was, I didn't really hang out with him - he ate his lunch on his own, as I did - sigh, typically high school clique mentality that only the cool kids get together for lunch...! and I kind of regret not having done so.

It is definitely a plus to know that you're not alone in your workplace when it comes to fellow Aspies, so the very presence of one could help boost morale.

Has anyone ever worked with another Aspie at a job, and if so how was the bonding?

I worked with someone that, in hindsight showed some very strong aspie traits.

There was no bonding ! Especially due to our positions, He was a R&D engineer and I was just "the builder". He absolutely hated it when I found mistakes, found the best possible solutions for designs, and was able to troble shoot problems he couldn't solve.

He wasn't the only one that probably hated me. I stepped on alot of toes !

I worked at a place that was family owned and aspergers, adhd and schizophrenia ran through the whole family. It was great, socially-- my current friend (there's usually only one at a time) is a member of the family. It's the best work enviroment I've ever been in some ways because all of the family really got me; they also tended to hire people who were outright aspie or had very definete aspie-like traits. Unfortunately, my boss (undiagnosed and a bit in denial) was a nightmare to work for. He was the president of the company, so there wasn't much that could be done when he got out of hand. The main reason people left is because they just couldn't deal with him anymore--family members included!

I'm not professionally DX-ed, but I'll share this:

Now that I've learned a little bit about AS, I am pretty sure my former manager had AS traits too, although I don't know if he would be diagnosable. We understood each other very well, and sometimes we fought like cats and dogs. We are both perfectionist types, and our job (art) was a special interest for both of us. We'd both work insane hours all of the time, often past midnight (neither of us got overtime pay).

We worked together for 20 years (and both lived though it). Some people would refer to us as the divorced couple *L*. I don't know if I would have had a chance to get my job anywhere else if he didn't hire me (it was a very informal interview), and I am grateful for that.


I wish there was an AS person in the office I work in now. I don't know if anyone is, but it doesn't seem like it.

That's kind of my experience, more of a oneupsmanship type of thing. At one workplace, this guy basically persecuted me. Sad, and it made me very angry. And I didn't really know how to handle the situation at the time.

I used to have an undiagnosed aspie co-worker who was much older than I am. We talked when we had the same shift but did not have much in common. He was more of an unhappy aspie and while I would often talk to myself he would GRIPE to himself constantly! I did not realize he was a fellow Asperger's individual until I had transferred to a different location.

I know that my corrections got at least 2 engineers fired.

I'm still not sure if I would do much different, I may of gone about it in a different way. Thats what they get for hiring draftsmen to do design work when they couldn't assemble a frikkin swing set.

wow that whole situation is such a huge weight on my mind, still. ..........and there is so many times that I could fill a book.

I used to work in publishing, proofreading medical journals, and there were several people I worked with who had very strong AS traits. One guy used to have meltdowns all the time and difficulties getting along with others in the department to the point where most people avoided him. We wound up getting along perfectly, though, to the point my boss noticed and assigned us partner together on projects.

I work in social services now, though, which tends to attact very outgoing 'people person' types. My boss has some AS-like traits, though, and I later learned he hired me because he thought we had similar personalities and would get along well. So, you never know, I guess.

I used to work part time in a supermarket while I was an undergrad student. For a couple of years there was another dxed aspie there. To date this is the only other autistic person I have met in RL that I know of.

I found that it was incredibly easy to get along small talk-wise, but other then that, no. Different interests, personailities, she saw autism as a disability and an excuse for not attempting to better oneself ("I can't do this full stop"), whereas I see it as a different way of thinking etc. I looked out for her when we were rostered on at the same time, that was about it.

I don't mind if someone makes constructive criticism on my work. I might become better.

The situation I'm remembering the guy used half-truths to basically wage war, I'm guessing because we were too similar. This was in 1999, which I'm thinking was back before I had really heard of Asperger's Syndrome.

LOL.....I got responses like "I drew it so it will work" "who has the degree, you don't" "who the heck are you to tell me"

I recall one instance that I disagreed with an engineer, actually the dept head. I said that it will work in this configuration as well as the opposite. about a week later I saw him with another worker "testing" my configuration. I simply walked over and said "I was right, wasn't I" and walked away.

Now that one, you might have been showing off a little.