Young Adults With Autism More Likely To Be Unemployed

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/04 ... renshealth

This is basically my life. It's miserable.

And water is wet.

Well yeah... (you don't have to have ASDs to be young and unemployed these days)

But...but... privilege? A lot of these folks will be white males...

I just tried to hunt this down and found this from Drexel University.

It says that 58% of young autistic people (between high school and early 20s) are employed or in college. 59% of all Americans are gainfully employed, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2015 report.

I've come across this number before, such as this Huffington Post article . So this isn't even actual news. Any regular person googling this stuff, or coming across it in the news, would be depressed by the way these numbers are represented. I'm a researcher, so I've spent weeks looking at these articles and the empirical reports they come from. Autistic people work just as much or as little as anyone else. We just don't hear about it.

I'm not downplaying the problems autistic people have in the workplace, with discrimination, workplaces not suited for them, and just dealing with stupid NT stuff all day long. These issues happen with all minority populations. The media should talk about that instead of making life seem hopeless if you aren't just like everybody else.

This is exactly what happened to me. I didn't go to college for the first time until I was 28. I spent most of the time before that going from temp job to temp job, and none of them ever lasted longer than a few weeks. After the first time I went to college, I spent 2 years trying to find a job before I decided to go to college again. I spent another 2 years after that trying to find a job, so I decided to go back to college again, which is where I am now. I'm really hoping that the same thing doesn't happen again, because I'll have no hope of ever paying back my student loans if I don't get a good job.

Yup. Does a bear crap in the woods? Is the Pope Catholic?

Still unemployed, after nearly a month since my last post in here.
In other news many of my fellow NTs from the same Masters program are also unemployed and my NT cousin who had a double major in computer programming and computer science couldn't get employed either until his dad took him on full time last year at his dad's business.

The economy is still bad for everyone under 40 for the most part.

Also if anyone missed it the U.S. economy grew by a miserable .3% for the first three months of 2015 due to the bad winter and drop in oil prices...

Or for that matter, is a bear Catholic? Does the Pope crap in the woods?

I don't think that anyone's ever said that (male privilege) + (white privilege) = (automatic neurotypical privilege), nice strawman though.

And what are the three sea shells for, anyway?

Beats the poop out of me.

I don't buy that. The problem is that people let a disabillity define them and allow it to further control their lives, preventing them to live their lives to the fullest potential that they possibly can. If jobs don't hire right away, work on getting there. Not enough money in your pocket? Learn financial literacy. Not many friends? Work on getting social skills. Not many interests? Try new stuff everyday. You have two choices in life: First one, give up. Let the labels that the media, Autism Speaks, and doctors gave you be your life and define what they think you should be. Second choice, keep fighting, keep doing things that make your life better. Define yourself to who you want to be and not what others tell you who you should be. Live. It's called adversity for a reason. Don't let anyone take that choice away from you. I've been there, I know how it felt at the time and how awful hard it can be. One of the best things I did in life was that I took risks. It took a billion tries to try, a million times the work, 1000 times to succeed at something. You can do it too. I know you can.

Wut. Did you even read what I said?

When it can be objectively demonstrated that white males with autism have worse life outcomes on a given metric than, say, white neurotypical females, it is quite clear that neurotype is more important than gender in determining how "priviliged" one is, at least in regards to that particular metric.

Most (probably all) studies I've read tend to end up with, "most people with AS don't work" (among other things).

Makes sense considering what the disorder affects.

(My white, tall, and handsome privilege does nothing.)