I am a member of a movement, what do you think about it
Discrimination certainly exists, but my main point was that autism often comes with certain deficits (or even comorbids) which can make it difficult to get and maintain employment. Many autistics struggle with executive function issues and hyperfocus. Hyperfocus can be good if one can manage to get a job centered around a special interest, but that’s not always possible.
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Most autistic adults even those relatively hf live with their NT parents as they have problems living alone, many others require NT carers for a few hours each day.
Bro's reaction when he learns of autistic caregivers:
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Of course your plan maybe to exclude by default those of us with higher needs , maybe you should state this
Nope
Really so how many autistic care givers do you think are needed when about 80-90% of autistic people are probably unable to live independently? who`s paying them are they living with them 24/7 in split shifts that's a lot of money and a lot of people?
Parents don't normally expect payment but caregivers will.
No one gives up their lives looking after complete strangers for free, so hundreds of thousands of care givers for hundreds of thousands of people?
Are hf aspies going to want to give up their lives and interests to look after a stranger who is severely disabled in the same way a parent might for their child, the answer is an obvious no, you & others probably wouldn't.
Again you have not thought the obvious through.
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creativeusername18 wrote:
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The unemployment rate isn’t solely about discrimination, nor is the suicide rate.
Not solely, but mostly, largely.
Again doesn't appear you are familiar with statistics with autism, nearly 50% of autistic adults that were diagnosed at 8 are intellectually disabled by 18 which eliminates 98% of jobs, the 2% that remain are increasingly filled by low wage immigrants and automation.
That's the starting point
Then you have the co-morbids and spiky functioning level making people ok for work Monday but not tue or maybe a whole week or more depending.
Have you ever suffered this?
This is largely why there are so many of us unemployed, why would a boss put up with someone who wasn't reliable to even turn up for work everyday?
Then there`s the errors caused by memory and ADHD co-morbids etc..and the hiring and firing that's so draining many give up, been there its hard, many retire early on welfare.
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