I hear all the time about how tech companies all over Europe, especially the Scandinavian countries like Norway, hire folks on the Autism Spectrum because they actually see the potential we have when it comes to bringing something to their businesses. So why the hell aren't we doing it here?
The short answer: It's not immediately profitable, and with the corporate attitude in America being about profit above all else, you can bet that any efforts to get Aspies into the tech market would never work here and the corporate industrial complex doesn't want it to.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do it. Hell, I'd love nothing more than to see that happen because I'm dead tired of being long-term jobless.
Someone also suggested a job board for aspies here, but I don't think that would work here either. You can only spend so much time on job boards looking at entries that want more than the job actually requires. Granted, it might depend on where you live too. I live in Florida and our tech job market practically died after 2008 and only got worse after the end of the shuttle program.
To be honest I'm not even sure where we'd begin, but I'd still like to see something happen.
Thanks,
Homer