More on autistic people and employment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/apr/06/autistic-workers-employers-ignorance

The above article was recently brought to my attention. I suspect the situation is even worse in the US, where social skills and fitting in are far more valued than doing the job correctly, in fact those who know how to "brown nose" the right people often can get away with nearly completely shirking their job duties, and those who don't fit in are fired. In addition, getting hired in the US heavily depends on whether previous employers liked you, which means that eventually autistics who try to work end up with a lot of bad references and eventually nobody at all wants to hire them. I know that I have trouble making eye contact during interviews, which means that I can't get past them. My lack of employment experience occasionally leads people to think that I am some sort of criminal. Autistics who try to start their own businesses find that nobody wants to be their client. The result is that capable people are forced to subsist on disability pensions. Maybe that's just as well, since there's not enough work for the number of people who are alive. I suspect that eventually the "problem" will be "solved" via war, famine, and disease, and possibly a return of the gas chamber.