Table 6. General categories for expected problems, occurred problems and solutions in individuals with no autism-specific job vs. with autism-specific job.

Question type	General category	Sub-category	N	%	N	%
Barriers			Expected barriers		Occurred barriers
	Social problems	colleagues	1	2	6	9
		communication	6	11	4	6
		customers	1	2	0	0
		handling the diagnosis	3	6	2	3
		interview	1	2	0	0
		mobbing	0	0	0	0
		supervisors	2	4	0	0
		others	1	2	0	0
	Formality problems	agencies	2	4	1	1
		application process	4	8	11	16
		equipment and environment	5	9	12	18
		qualification	12	23	7	10
		support	1	2	7	10
		work routine	5	9	8	12
		others	0	0	1	1
	Job demand problems	cognitive	5	9	4	6
		stress & psychosomatic	3	6	2	3
		time-related	0	0	1	1
		others	1	2	1	1
			Used solutions
Solutions	Self-solution	acceptance	12	21
		avoidance / resignation	0	0
		communication	13	23
		compensation	2	4
		concealment of diagnosis	0	0
		information about diagnosis	1	2
		practice / qualification	7	12
		other	2	4
	External help	external institutions	2	4
		private environment	4	7
		work environment	10	18
		other	4	7

Note. Irrelevant answers were not included in this analysis. All relevant general categories were relativised by the number of sub-categories they contained, making the coding of each general category equally probable.