{"id":13293,"date":"2022-09-16T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/?p=13293"},"modified":"2023-10-05T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:39:48","slug":"an-autism-diagnosis-in-adulthood-leads-to-a-new-career-goal-repost-from-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/2022\/09\/16\/an-autism-diagnosis-in-adulthood-leads-to-a-new-career-goal-repost-from-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"An Autism Diagnosis in Adulthood Leads to a New Career Goal (repost from SPARK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Date Published: January 3, 2022<br \/>\nBy: Marina Sarris<br \/>\n(excerpt below from <span class=\"notranslate\">SPARK<\/span>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Braxton Webb had held plenty of jobs. He was a U.S. Marine Corps reservist, a truck driver, a security guard, and a deputy correctional officer. But he struggled in some of them, as he had in school when he was growing up.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Webb, then 33 years old, decided to find out why he had those difficulties. He saw a neuropsychologist, who gave him the answer: he has autism.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, he got the answer to yet another question: why does he have autism? That answer was unexpected and came from <span class=\"notranslate\">SPARK<\/span>, the autism research study he joined after his diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Now Webb has a new career in mind, one in which he knows he can excel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sparkforautism.org\/discover_article\/adult-autism-diagnosis-career\/\">Read the full family story and how the Webb family continued their research journey in <span class=\"notranslate\">Simons Searchlight<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read how the Webb family continued their research journey in Simons Searchlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":13294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13297,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13293\/revisions\/13297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonssearchlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}