Autism Disclosure at Work - Analyzing...

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Update for those who participated/are interested. I'll also put this on the wordpress when it's a little more concrete.

I will have to save a good deal of the data for later use because it ended up being way too much for one thesis and one journal article. This is what I will be writing about right now:

-I will be writing a general description of the participant pool. I will be describing your gender makeup, educational makeup, generalizations about your employment, and so on. I will not be discussing sexual orientation or gender identification because I didn't ask people about those things.

-I will discuss disclosure, with the subtypes formal and informal. I will select probably one representative from your responses to quote and refer to that person by a pseudonym. I will ask that person if I have quoted them accurately before I use the quote for publication.

-I will discuss formal accommodations and informal help. Both of these are autism-specific accommodations or help, which are different from, say, simple human kindnesses that most people do for one another. I will again select a representative to quote, yada yada as above.

-I will discuss an unexpected phenomenon where people are accommodated or helped without being asked, and sometimes without telling anyone they are autistic. Again, I will quote someone and so on.

I may discuss some measures such as education and age as they may interact with disclosure and accommodations, and I may contact the people who have already participated to ask a couple of specific questions. But I have to continue analysis before I will know if I need to ask more questions.

I can answer questions about this here, people can directly message me, or email me through the wordpress site. Thanks for everyone's help and interest!

Sounds good to me.

i look forward to the results!