I'm a licensed therapist with an autistic spectrum disorder. It was hard. I got rejected a lot. I gave up. I didn't get into the type of program that I wanted to. But here I am. I'm working in psychology. I was only diagnosed with Asperger's not quite two years ago, and I've been a fully licensed mental health counselor for just a little bit longer than that. When I originally applied for graduate school they told me that mu social skills were too strange and that I couldn't work with people. They said that I should get a second bachelor's degree in engineering. I gave up on everything for about 15 years and finally couldn't deal with life anymore and in coming out of a crisis and making my way back up out of the deep, dark pit, I realized that I needed to get back into school and develop a career. I found a way. I had to consider different paths than the one that I thought was the best, and that was hard, but it was what I needed to do. It doesn't happen all at once, but don't give up and don't rule anything out automatically.