I don't know why people are not understanding the reasons why having a diagnosis of autism may affect you if you have to take a care job, because there are actually quite a lot of very obvious points of overlap between the diagnostic criteria and what a care role requires.
There are the differences in social-emotional reciprocity, non-verbal communication and developing, maintaining and understanding relationships. A care role can require you to constantly interpret facial expressions, tone, body language and changes in behaviour, understand what somebody needs when they haven't explicitly said it, adjust how you communicate depending on who you are dealing with, and manage multiple social interactions throughout the day.
There is the issue of cognitive and behavioural flexibility. Care work is unpredictable. Plans change, routines change, you get interrupted, someone needs something unexpectedly, you have to stop one task and start another, remember where you were, prioritise something else and then return to the original task.
There are sensory differences. Noise, alarms, phones, fluorescent lighting, smells, physical contact, unexpected touch, people talking over each other, people moving around you, equipment, bodily fluids and a generally busy and unpredictable environment. NICE specifically recognises sensory sensitivities and the impact of the physical environment.
There is emotional regulation. You're dealing with other people's distress, pain, fear, anger, grief and sometimes aggression, often while still being expected to remain regulated yourself.