for sports events... all those anecdotes...but he wanted to act. Still does, and does... he was recently in the play Urinetown. I just don't know how he would do in a situation where he doesn't know his environment very well.
My younger son took his first job as a systems analyst. When he was in middle school, the teachers wanted to put him in a vocational program because he had to take medicine for a disability that can sometimes interfere with cognitive function - and he was a gamer, not writer/reader kind of kid. (Tho now that he's working, he's starting to read for pleasure, probably to know references from the sci-fi geeks in the field...) lol.
He has an extremely dry sense of humor, all subtle, the sort of thing his older brother doesn't even get... he was like that from the first I recall of him. What's great is he brings up subjects, to me, about the MRM, Dworkin, etc... he hears this from his peer group, I'm sure - but he doesn't fall in with that world at all. He's engaged, too.
So, they're both doing well, thankfully.
eta: I talk about my older son's autism because he's very vocal about it. I don't talk about my younger son's situation because he chooses to be private.
eta, part deux - the interesting thing about my younger son's experience is that his dad was from a working class family and his 5th grade teacher or so told his parents that he could maybe be a plumber (and, in Europe, kids are really tracked into school programs early.) But, he didn't agree, I suppose, and got a licentiate in math, then a full scholarship for a PhD program in the U.S.
The moral of both stories is to not let others set your expectations for yourself. As a female trying to be "good" that was always a hard one for me to overcome - so I hope younger females simply refuse to listen to that sort of thing anymore.
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