Carol Adams, a professor of accounting at Swinburne University of Technology, worked most of her adult life before being told this year she was autistic.
Carol found she identified with autistic characters in television and literature – as well as with Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg. “Employers need to be telling the right stories. They need to be talking about the strengths autistic people bring to the workplace, the benefits they bring,” Carol says. “Whether that’s their work ethic, bringing a different perspective to problem solving, bringing technical skills, avoiding group-think.
"So we’re not talking about big things here. And you could have somebody on your team who has amazing skills and brings an enormous amount of wealth.”
With the massively assymetrical numbers of males/females with ASD, does this imbalance bear out in the unemployment figures? Do different sex dominated industries have differing employment rates for people with ASD?
It takes effort but it is possible..
Its all getting insane these days! Neurodiversity, which fool came up with that?
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Yes! This!