Let us know your personality/behaviour first.

It cant be only quiet as you have mentioned that you were labelled as weirdo.

I also like you but SPM kids only. Middle age. People might think i am weirdo because i think and speak like ruler and bad at social skill so can be perceive as quite. Since i have no degree so have to go construction route. Salary kinda good tho at 3000++ include allowances after deduction. I personally prefer It tech or technical job but because i have more construction experiences so boss kinda make me to deal with site customer although my title is supervisor only. Stress AFK.

I think the best job for you that require no interaction. Maybe software engineer. Need to find whats wrong, run a debugging software. Need solution, just have virtual chat at stack overflow forum

you may try to sign up therapy/consultation sessions with counsellor to help you

apply for SPA to get government job. either be a teacher/lecturer/ PTD or be government engineer gred J41.

it will help build your confidence and social skill better

what kind of work do you do as an engineering consultant?

drug alone will not solve most of the mental health issue,

you may need to go for CBT, mindfulness classes like meditation, self affirmation classes, inner child classes and so on

that is hugely revealing

I've been there, maybe not bad as you

you need to let out your repressed emotions

i bet you have a lot of anger and frustrations, consider going to the gym

i became a new person after i regular gym

and don't worry about what other people think, they don't, its not in their best interest to think about you

apply for SPA to get government job. either be a teacher/lecturer/ PTD or be government engineer gred J41.

it will help build your confidence and social skill better

Stay in tech. As long as you don't move up the ladder too much, you can work on your own and solve problems without much human interaction. Once you start moving up, you'll require more human interaction and people skills.

My last drawn none-senior software engineer salary are 6.6k, or 7k, i cant recall, and it can be higher depend on company.
Can u discuss technical issue and requirement normally? If can that's no issue to hit the said salary if u have the correct technical skill
Met few programmer which are really quiet during work, and don't really speak, but as long as u are responsible to your task and complete it on time, thn everything is fine. And of cause, if u are in the right place, toxic person could be anywhere

I think most junior tech roles don't require that much human interaction. I'm not sure if autistic gets you an OKU card, but you can probably try contacting the relevant ministry.

can you share a picture of yourself?

no lah, SPA refers to Public Services Commission of Malaysia (Malay: Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam Malaysia), abbreviated SPA or PSC

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I think the best choice for you is still in tech. unless you really hate it. dont worry about future salary as you dont have much choice now anyway. engineering seems like a dead end either now or sooner.

as for tech, most dont care if you have a degree or not, as long as you have the technical capabilities. but you must tempered you expectation. if you condition dont improve and you dont make improvement yourself, sooner or later you gonna hit a wall. like others said, if you moving up the ladder, definitely there will be more interaction needed. even if you dont move to leadership role, just being a senior, you are suppose to be able to guide others technically.

meanwhile, try to think what you can do as a side hustle that dont need interaction. all i can think of is to write in medium.com/, where you can write articles, stories and your thoughts like a blog and earn from there.

I know a forummer here that is earning quite a bit writing there. best thing is, you can hide behind it.

I have an ex colleague who worked for 5 years in my company, she was diagnosed with Asperger's late too (not sure what age exactly, I'm gonna guess +/-20yo).

Unfortunately I was also socially awkward in the years she was around, so I don't know her well. But as an observer, I think she was... "accepted"? After all she stayed with the company for 5 years ish. Idk why she resigned though.

We're IT company, where our "developer" role is a bit different from others. We're kind of a consultant role but not customer facing. The consultancy part is mainly internal, where we provide our inputs/suggestions usually in more technical aspects. It still involves dealing with people and you do need to talk almost on a daily basis (discussions, Q&A etc), but I think people here generally don't care* if you go lunch alone or stay silent in a group conversation.

* Some people might ask out of curiosity but they don't mean much.

Personally I think it might help to be upfront about your condition, to explain what it is and then tell people how you'd like people to treat/adjust to you. I personally have strabismus (misaligned eyes) and I inform people if I notice they're struggling with my eye contact, it's been a positive effect for me so far. Not sure what kind of effect it'd bring for different conditions but I'd think that it's good for me to know so I can be more considerate about your situation.

Maybe you're just social withdrawal not autism? If austism, anti-psychotic like Risperidone can treat it.

I can relate your behaviour, maybe you're more like nerd, like to work with thing and idea, instead of people.

Hi TS, I can totally understand your situation as I am in the same field, got an engineering degree as well and have been struggling for many years. It is not smooth sailing for a normal introvert like me, let alone an autistic guy. Based on what you have said, I think hands-on tech job is suitable for you. I reckon you can "climb up" or develop yourself from this position, aiming to be a senior technician. All the best.

Question, did you disclose about your autism in your application ?

Yeah I think its a rock and a hard case, I understand your situation.

Employers/HR are idiots, they don't really have equal opportunity. Once they hear this, they will straight away nullify.

I think you better stay at your current position. Since you already admitted you're not good with socializing.

Maybe you have a chat with your boss on this ? But it could be that he is forced to do so, because he needs to reorganize his team, perhaps ?