John: Acceptance and accommodation. Most of the managers he consults with worry about how to retain their employees. This is how.
#Neurodiversity
Steve: We need to redirect autism research. Currently 32% of research is genetics and only 2% is only lifespan/QoL issues. That is messed up.
We do know that the UK did a study, and the kid/adult #autism prevalence was identical.
John: Center autistic people in autism conversations, policy, curriculum, and organizations. This is why most autism tech is junk; autistic people weren’t consulted.
Why? He needed people who saw things differently, had different perspectives, solved problems differently. It changed John’s life, and he started leaning into being autistic.
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