Neurodiversity can be a workplace strength, if we make room for it

Autistic children and adults alike are encouraged to start conversations with other people, to ensure they are being fair toward others, to share things with other people, to think from another person’s point of view, and to put a great deal of effort into mind reading another person’s interests and emotions. Where do the Autistic person’s interest

how and why capitalism is so intensely neuronormative, becoming more so with each passing decade. While all societies and economic systems have some standard of what is considered acceptable or valuable mental functioning – and while some mental illness and disability will always exist – I suggest capitalism is disposed to much tighter standards th

In that inquiry, we dig deeply into the case studies of neurodiverse writer Naoki Higashida, the civil rights movement’s Freedom Schools, and interdisciplinary scholar par excellence Leonardo da Vinci.

Indeed, it is most probably the case that historically autistic people have actually worked harder to understand non-autistic society than the efforts made by their non-autistic peers.

Neurodivergent people repeatedly receive the message that our assertions of agency are completely unacceptable inconveniences, and that we don’t have an accurate gauge of what’s going on within our own bodies and minds.

Some are assumed to be too “high functioning” to need accommodations, but actually suffer deeply from a lack of accessibility and support.