Everyone in the workplace and in volunteer situations knows me as the person to ask if they have any kind of question. During an average day, I have half a dozen people come ask me for advice, because they know that if I don’t already know the answer, I know where to find it.
Of course, much like a stereotypical village wise person, there is a kind of social distance between me and other people. But I prefer it that way.
Autism makes my life very hard in some ways, but I do love my ability to create an internal encyclopedia on subjects I enjoy.
What do you call the Autistic person that will warn people something disastrous they are doing, they still do it, the Autistic person is vindicated for the 1000th time, and the cycle repeats because nothing was learned?
Maybe this is somewhat niche. I am referring to my previous job trauma where I worked at a corporation with the dumbest, circlejerking IT “system analysts” (used ChatGPT to write broken PowerShell scripts that never worked, and they were running in production) I have ever dealt with.