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“I Don’t Know How to Do That” – When Your Autistic Employee Says This, It’s a Sincere Attempt to Learn, Not Dodge Responsibility
I’ve existed as an autistic person in a neurotypical world for over four decades, and it took me well into my third to...
Why Your Autistic Employees May Turn Down Food at Company Events
Trigger warning: Food, eating, and eating disorders. For many people, regardless of neurotype, food is a sensitive...
5 Steps to Take Before You Fire Your Autistic Employee
As you know, when an autistic person gets on a subject, we get on a subject! When I wrote my first article for...
From frazzled to flow: Neurodiversity, inclusion, and enabling the best work.
Most organizations want to hire people with high potential to be productive and creative. In many cases, "spiky...
How to Move Beyond Autism Acceptance and Into True Autistic Inclusion
April is Autism Acceptance Month, and while acceptance is a step in the right direction, that’s all it is; a step. We...
Flexibility in the Workplace and Unlocking Neurodiversity Inclusion
Flexibility in the workplace has always existed. For a long time, however, it was doled out to the privileged few or...
Why Being Fired as an Autistic Person Has a More Harmful Impact Than Being Fired as a Neurotypical Person
If you’ve been reading my content for a while, you know I’ve already written about the trauma of being fired as an...
How the Autistic ‘Spiky Profile’ Creates an Expectation-vs-Reality Gap in the Workplace
If you've never employed an autistic person before, you may have some outdated ideas about our neurology that could...