One of the tragedies that I find is, as you make your way up the ladder, you obtain benefits and privileges that would be beneficial for autistic people, but they are denied, thus limiting and impacting people. An open-plan office might look appealing to an extrovert, but for an autistic, having phones ringing, paper being shuffled, and other such things are terrible distractions. A closed office space would be better, but not enough people have thought of that.

Another thing that has been overlooked is, some of us compartmentalise people, and for this purpose it can be an advantage. My father worked with a man, and I don't know if he was autistic, but he gave generously to the social club, but he didn't attend workplace gatherings. One day, Dad asked him why, and he replied, "I have my colleagues, I have my friends, and I have my family. I don't let my colleagues become friends." Where this can be an advantage is, say two male colleagues are each married, and they have unstructured socialising outside work, it's very hard if say, one colleague goes to the other colleague's house on a Saturday night, and their wives are there, and say they've both had a few drinks and one colleague says something about the colleague's wife, and it's offensive, and they leave in a huff, and then they have to work together on Monday morning.

That doesn't mean, however, that if you finish work at 6pm Friday, and on Saturday morning, you're grocery shopping, and you see your colleague that you turn and walk the other way; you say hello and keep walking.