How well do aspies fair in the IT industry?

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How well do aspies fair in the IT industry?

Hopefully get some answers from aspies in the IT industry or people who know someone with aspergers who work in the IT industry.

Thanks

Please remember that according to Temple Grandin, there are (at least!) three types of people on the Spectrum.

1) People good at story, narrative, and language arts.

2) People good at math (this is the classic stereotype, like many of the characters on Big Bang Theory), and

3) People who think in picture, like Temple herself.

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And I think Temple even says that people can span several of these categories. And, I wish there were more good jobs for generalists like myself (although the funny thing, I tend to get either an A or an F in math classes).

I guess, of Temple Grandin's three types, I would be the first one.

Thinking in pictures can take on different forms, such as using abstract/complex images in your head to do math problems, seeing a map in your mind and being able to follow it, being able to build a machine in your head. Temple herself describes being able to build a complete cattle chute in her mind and edit it/arrange it to see if it would work before even putting it on paper. It differs from person to person what they actually see or can do.

I'm more of a type 3, with a little of type 1. I'm a flop at type 2, hoping my type 3 talent/skill can help that someday.

I'm largely the first type, too.

So, in math, if I spend a lot of time, I might be able to describe what the forward traveling point of a graph is doing. And in other ways, I think I experiment with turning math ideas and concepts into story and narrative.