Autism, Disclosure, and Workplace Accommodations

[@consuelonavarrohidalgo5334]

Thank you for sharing this information. It will be helpful for me even if I live in Europe. God bless you! 🙏😘.

[@TauvicRitter]

For me its important to have a good picture to know what the department/team stands for. What their main purpose is, what quality they are supposed to deliver and what values they find important. And most import if they REALLY mean it. Then i can look for a role that supports all this. And propose my ideas. Get feedback if that works for them. Im not the type that works best to follow orders and delivers standard products. Being autistic and a little different from the rest made me think a lot about why we do what we do. Take interest in history, international politics and legal issues. Makes me think critical and not always a smooth person to work with. I pove to investigate new territories and invent solutions. Develop better procedures.

[@TauvicRitter]

Good information and the channel is great. Please readjust camera and move ventilator out of view

[@livenotbylies]

Please do not say "with autism." This talk reflected a lack of understanding of the double empathy problem and a very deficit-based concept of autism, though I realize under the ADA and the DSM medical model, we are currently treated as such in the context under discussion We are autistic people and we are part of nature and the human race. Autism is not, *itself* a disability, deficit, disorder or disease. It is not an illness or affliction and we don't "have" it We dont have slow processing, we have more processing. Meltdowns and other issues are often caused by masking and is an outcome of the autistic person bearing all the cost of diversity that the culture is not metabolizing. This is like a scapegoat child in a narcissistic family system. In many places in this talk, accomodations for perceived deficits were discussed, where education about differences and skills of collaboration could have been discussed. This still leaves the responsibility on the autistic person and is infantilizing, pathologizing and invalidating. Most of the time, the culture or environment can be improved for all such that everyone benefits rather than locating a deficit into the autistic person as a pure cost deficit I still found this talk valuable and interesting and hope that my direct, autistic-style feedback will be taken in the spirit of helping in which it was intended

[@ChrisstineLynnn]

As a late-diagnosed 55-yr-old autistic female, I applaud your ability to explain Autism eloquently, professionally, and with kindness and openness as well.

[@livenotbylies]

@@ChrisstineLynnn thank you so much. I am currently discerning if I should try to get involved in public advocacy, beyond Internet comments. Your encouraging words are very helpful

[@ChrisstineLynnn]

@@livenotbylies I think you'd be OUTSTANDING at it. I rarely take time to post extensive KZbin comments because I know I've expended so much authentic energy writing them and that intimate energy I've used probably isn't even going to get read. So I'd definitely like to see you use your talents the best way you can. :)