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Cobretti2 on 04 March 2021
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Phoenix20 said:

Graduating college and becoming unemployable is a sad future that a lot of Autistic people may face if they waste their time studying. There are far too many graduates and not enough jobs.

An Autistic person is socially challenged and is unlikely to form a network that is needed to become employable with a college education. Plenty of the popular low achieving extroverted students with networks get jobs instead of the high achieving Autistic kids at college. Autistic kids at college have to achieve higher results to get a job than people that have good social networks. An Autistic kid barely passing or getting average marks is unlikely to get a job and is wasting his/her time at college. An Autistic kid who is a socially awkward introvert has to achieve high marks to counteract the lack of social network.

Social network is everything when it comes to employment opportunities and high marks are needed by Autistic people to make up for the lack of social/communication skills. Job interviews weed out the social challenged applicants that performed well in academics but struggle to hold a conversation. Most jobs require decent social/communication skills that do not come naturally to Autistic people

The OP has been able to overcome his social challenges and get a job despite the odds being stacked against him. It is hard convincing employers that you are worth employing when you have a disability. An employer will often employ an able person ahead of a disabled person. Employers attitudes will not change unless their are Anti-Discrimination laws that mandate employers must employ a quota of disabled people to comply with the law. 

This is true for most people. Universities have become a business not an education institute. They want bodies enrolled so they get funding.

In reality you have to do a degree where there are jobs in demand. There is a lot of junk degrees that won't land you a job no matter if your normal or with Aspergers.

There are anti-discrimination laws in place but lets face it mandated quotas is stupid for every job type. Depending on your level of Autism, or other physical challenges in life, some jobs are too dangerous to employee such a person and would be irresponsible to do so. Look at Cerebral palsy, would you hire someone with that condition to be a fire fighter or a police person?

Now I don't know what level of Aspergers you have, but I suspect it is close to what Curl-6 has as you have the capacity to think the world is against similar to what negative people do all the time.  Now Curl-6 I think could easily find a job in any field that he held a degree in (unless it was a saturated market of people and lack of jobs in general).  You should use Curl-6 as an inspiration that it is possible to change for the better and grow beyond the stigma. Also this one should be easy. Just smile. Sometimes that all it takes in a job interview. If you look like you are expecting not to get the job people can see it. Sometime if you think you won't get the job you don't even try to get the job and come across like you not skilled for it and or disinterested. Recruiters are trained to see people that are wasting their time.