@Bette @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic
Bette, lurk and please also join in. I'm recently self diagnosed and looking back at my relationships with a new light o I'm interested to hear about that from your perspective as well as those like me.
I'm only just realising why I needed routine, things done a certain way etc, and wondering how hard that was for my ex. Also if it would have helped for us both to understand this.
@doggle @Bette @actuallyautistic
A post about routines is what flagged for me. For nearly everything in my life, there's a process, there are steps, they have to be done in order or things go wrong. I live on checklists, timers, and alarms.
@doggle @Bette @actuallyautistic
I consider myself lucky that I stumbled across my perfect niche. I work in an engineering capacity, in aerospace, where precision, process, and documentation are *everything*. It's like they created a role, just for me.
@ScottSoCal @Bette @actuallyautistic that's cool. I had similar, found computers at the end of the seventies and my interest became the path to my career.
@doggle @Bette @actuallyautistic
Before I was here, I worked in IT, for a couple of software development companies. I got hired here to rewrite their QMS software, then switched tracks when that was done, and took an engineering position.
A science fiction geek, and there's stuff in space right now that I've held in my hands. I have people at JPL and Goddard in my contact list. *Nothing* can top that.
@ScottSoCal @Bette @actuallyautistic I have similar reasons to smile as I look back, but it got even better after I went back to coding for a (serious) hobby.
My highlight was having lunch with the inventor of the web in his local pub, just me and him, as he likes to meet in person rather than just collaborate online. I was working on something to do with his project Solid.
Nothing I did is in space yet, but I got back to doing some code this morning, so who knows. 😄
@ScottSoCal @Bette @actuallyautistic very similar here although now I'm retired I have space to try letting go of those and am using them less.