An autistic friend who is getting his doctorate in clinical psychology noted that he’ll have months free before he begins his clinical residency. He asked if he should become a contact tracer to fill the time before then.

Um...autistic people would be the BEST contact tracers!

I mean, I’m being very general here. However, a deep autistic sense of empathy and pattern thinking (common to many), and our need to reverse engineer everything in our lives is a great match.

When the contact tracer reached out to me after I tested positive, I was like “And on THIS day, while I don’t think I was yet positive, here is the name of the driver of the Lyft I took, the names of his third cousins twice removed, and the name of the DJ on the radio station.”