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Category: Employment

Posts on the employment challenges faced by autistics.

Responding to: You Walked Away? I’d Never Do That!

The most frequent question I’ve received after deciding to leave a job has been, “How could walk away without another job?” That’s a good question and reflects real concerns people have. Autistics struggle with employment without any additional challenges. Now that I have severe spinal pain and my Erb’s palsy…

Pride Wasn’t Enough to Overcome Pain and Overload

Because I want to contribute to our family, I value work. Even if I weren’t married with children, I would want to be employed and take care of myself financially. However, the emotional need to be productive often runs up against my physical limitations. If I could earn a living sitting…

Autistics Fail to Meet the Checklists for Workplace Fit

Autistics often find themselves judged in the workplace not by their knowledge and skills, but by how well they perform “normalcy” in an office. To appear other than how they are, the Autistics must mask, as in putting on their happy worker faces and mimicking the “neurotypical” people around them,…

Physical Reactions to Stressful Interactions

Good people in relatively good workplaces might still fail to understand or appreciate the traits of an individual Neurodiverse person. Tangent: I have addressed why I prefer to “misuse” Neurodiverse instead of using Neurodivergent. I might shift to “Neurominority” in the future; “Autistic” remains the best way to describe my…

Podcast Episode 117 – Jason Dietrich, Neurodiverse STEM Educator

Podcast 0117; Season 7, Episode 10; 03 September 2024 Jason Dietrich, Neurodiverse STEM Educator; originally recorded on 15 September 2023 Jason Dietrich writes: I am interested in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM as well as building a solid foundation for STEM literacy. Ours is a technology-based society, therefore, I…