JEN WILSON

Autistic with ADHD, PDA (she/her/hers)

Kids?
Yes, two girls.

Dogs or cats?
Raccoons.

If you could be any fruit, what kind of fruit would you be?
Salmonberry.

What superpower do you wish you had?
Invisibility.

Where in this world have you lived?
Humboldt County. Portland OR. Poughkeepsie NY. Venice Beach & Culver City, CA. Seattle then Bainbridge.

Where did you go to school?
Lewis & Clark College

First Job:
Candy striper at the hospital my mom worked at.

Best Job:
Are there good jobs? I do excel at finding bugs in other peoples code.

How did you get involved in Neurodiverse Connections?

My daughters’ SLP said they needed a numbers person and I do like numbers!

JEN’S STORY

I grew up in the middle of nowhere. Left for college early and majored in all of the things until I took a computer science class and accidentally wrote a recursive answer to a problem and the professor insisted I major in that. Went to work for IBM on supercomputer management software, moved to LA to work on data farms where I met my husband who is also in tech and we ended up in Seattle. Two ND kids later and I am embracing (sometimes on my good days) the austic, adhd, pda person that I’ve always been.