Unemployment despite higher education for Asperger People

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This thread is ~6 years old but it's still very relevant. Educated autistic people do struggle with finding/keep a job compared with educated non-autistic people. I've read some article about it. What the OP of this thread described is pretty much the reality. Completing university education can be done as long as one is hard-working but finding/keeping a job requires that plus people skills, where many autistic people fail. Still, autistic people have a better prospect in a skilled position than in an unskilled position because people skills are often the most important skills in unskilled positions (even just to deal with coworkers).

I completed a university degree but am underemployed. My problem is that I'm so badly awkward and weird that people don't even take me seriously as a person. Even before considering my intellectual capabilities/skills, people reject me as a person.

I understand why.
Studying decades long is easy.
Heck, getting life skills is easy.

But executive functioning as a function than a skill?
Oh, I don't know? "Why not buy a house so you stop being homeless?"


Yet it's still bad from where I came from.
Kinda a double whammy for me if I weren't so lucky.

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