Hi Chase Asay.  I'm all for the ideal, but the reality is far harder to achieve.  For instance, apart from the preschool-teaching portion of my career I am also a published and award-winning writer.  I have also worked at a variety of jobs during my 50 times around the sun, including doing contract conveyancing (to ensure that all houses/units/residences are of a habitable and safe standard before their purchase) for a team of lawyers.

You need to find out what you're good at and then (and this is the difficult part) work so hard at it, get so good at it, and convince the employers of all the above, and that you're also a "team player", a "people person" and a inanely-smiling little NT before all that hard work will eventually be rewarded.  Interestingly enough, in all the job interviews I've attended, even in the ones where I've scored the job, my well-above-average IQ never entered into the equation.  

I'm not saying don't do it.  By all means, go for it, in my own small way I've proved that it can be done.  But don't expect that it's all going to drop into your lap.  I've been pushing a stone ten times my weight uphill for so long, as well as fighting a rearguard battle from NTs behind me, that it now feels like second nature, but it's never easy.  

I love your enthusiasm and your encouragement to other Aspies.  Now temper that with a few more turns around the sun, and you'll be a force to be reckoned with!

Alison (the only one in my preschool who can hold a tune and knows all the Wiggles songs)