I like to figure things out and solve problems.
It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.
I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier.
Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.
People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.