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One of my friends is a sex worker with Asperger's. She is very prone to overstimulation. Though, when I asked her about her work - apparetenly Asperger's does not affect her much (meetings have concrete goal and structure, so implicit communication is not as important as is managing more open-ended social interactions) plus in 1-1 there aren't too many people (or too loud sound/noise).

As a side note, in this topic, one of the most illuminating things I found:

Interpersonal Traits of Aspies Placed in Context (a chapter from A Mind-Body Look at the Concept of Asperger's Syndrome (pdf) by Michael Samsel, LMHC):

https://gist.github.com/stared/00ce50e95f9bcecc8965feb04650c...



Thank you for this link. I'm startled at how clearly it describes these traits. I will read the entire document. Thank you again




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