12 Oct 2009, 12:35 am
Hey everyone. 
I'm Laura, I'm currently in college. I was diagnosed with AS a while ago. Today I came across this (the link was deleted, but the paper is called "Understanding 'Honest Signals' in Business" by Prof. Alex Pentland).
By looking at people's social, nonverbal signaling behaviors, these scientists were able to predict, with nearly perfect accuracy, the outcomes of deals, job interviews, salary negotiations, investment decisions, first dates, and much more. But I'm not very good at this sort of subtle social signaling stuff, so I don't know what I'm going to do with my life. I want to be a programmer, but who would hire me? I want to start a company, but who would invest in me? I want to get married, but who would date me? All of these things, apparently, depend entirely on how good you are at subtle, little, unspoken social games and rules and on virtually nothing else.
12 Oct 2009, 7:39 am
12 Oct 2009, 7:55 am
Hi Laura, I'm a Junior in college right now, Mathematics major. I had some of the same concerns, but it's really not so bad. A lot of people in college and working adults are more understanding of any shyness/awkwardnss/whatever than high school kids. I would just relax and not think of your situation as a handicap. You'll be fine.
(And I would invest in your company 
)
12 Oct 2009, 9:54 am
If you want to work with computer, you don't need to be social
Actually at work I have the "baby sitters" (I call secretaries that way...) of my boss looking that I don't do anything too strange, badly I can do 10 men work on a computer, so me + 2 baby sitters > 10 men
By the way the important step are the first 10-20 minute when you'll recive an interview, you can read some book about body language and the like and exercise (like a theater), you don't need to do it like other people, try to do it consciously and keep an open but decise body language.
