From a British call center to an Alaskan satellite facility, Lars Backstrom has had a lot of jobs, but says he always felt like a hexagonal peg in a square hole — he just didn't fit in.
That changed last year when the 55-year-old Swede joined the British branch of Auticon, an IT consultancy that employs people with autism, some of whom have skills that are particularly well-suited to analyzing data and recognizing patterns.
"They put me down in a hexagonal hole," Backstrom told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.