Ageism and ASD

Post Reply New Topic

Have you posted your art here on WP?

Anyway...don't you have CPR skills? Maybe you could teach an adult education class on CPR.

It's not a lost cause for you, Ms. Jensen! I think you're resourceful, and will, ultimately, be successful.

I posted a watercolor elf a year ago, but I haven´t made anything for years. The fight with the social system tends to shut off everything else.

What is CPR?
I used to teach evening classes in art and music many years ago, but I couldn´t just jump into it right away now.
Besides, the last 4-5 times, I tried to start again, nobody signed in.
The state support has been cut down, so evening classes are very expensive and people don´t experiment as they used to before. They choose the safe subjects. Mindfulness and body-culture are in high demand.
My subjects are traditional, they take time, no matter how you arrange them - and people are pressured on time.
Filling up evening classes is very difficult in general these years.
Maybe some day.

I posted one water color elf last year (not my ally, really). It has been years, since I did anything.

What´s CPR? That heart rescue thing? No, I have no skill.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... eople.html

Everyday ageism reflected in language. I hear and read it every day..

Our culture is sick in that respect (as in many others).Some of it is initiated/strengthened by the jobmarket.
They´ve just taken over old cultural ideas. They seem to DEFINE ideas about age today and can be picky - because everybody is scared of unemployment.
NEWS! We´ve passed the middle ages. The fact is, that never in history of man have so many people over a certain age been so able.
As the journalist said: You don´t refer to people under 45 as youngsters or such. Why the need for an ageist label the day, you pass 50?
It is SO limiting!
We must put up a fight and show´em!

I have enjoyed reading this thread about ageism and ASD with a matter of older perspectives. I am going add some things that have not been mentioned.

Companies hire workers that produce more revenue than they consume --ie, buy cheap labor for the highest profits. Older + ASD = less profit. They can hire 2-3 temp or part-time workers for less than one of us. Sure some of us are valuable workers, but they don't see the immediate benefits. We are long term investments -- if you are over 50 that means there is a risk the higher pay won't be paid back in profits due to the time it would take to recover the work to profit yield. Extra accomidations or health benefits also cut into profits.

I don't think there is a good answer for either side because no statistical study has been done to determine if we are worth the risk or not. Profit loss is the fear. We need to find out if that fear is valid. If not, then we can bring it to their attention. I'm not yet in the year range for agism, as a thirtysomething, but if I do get there I want this resolved.

I am unhirable for a different reason, but that is beyond the scope of this thread.

You experience agism the second you enter adulthood if not any sooner because organizations like Autism $peaks wants everyone to believe adults with ASD don't exist.

Myths about ageing:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015 ... ?CMP=fb_gu