Autistic and neurodivergent people tend not to apply for a job unless they meet all the requirements of the role.

If this is you, it's holding you back. Here's why...🧵 You need to apply a translation factor when you read job descriptions.

People are not typically saying what they mean (sorry, I wish they would)...

Starting tasks is hard for ADHDers, as we have fewer dopamine receptors. Finishing tasks is also hard for a few reasons ...🧵 Often starting tasks is more fun than finishing them. So we put of finishing things in favour of starting new stuff...

Try this exercise - notice every time someone asks you a question and see if you have a 'default response' an answer that you start to say before you've thought about it... 🧵 When a therapist first asked me to do this several years ago I noticed
1) I would say yes by default if someone was asking me for something
2) I would say no be default if they were offering to help me...

(just as well I was seeing a therapist - this is not healthy)

Once I had a house mate who was allergic to peanuts. He didn't tell me though, I found out when he came back from A&E. He didn't want to tell me because he didn't want to be a nuisance or a burden or make his problems my problems. Sound familiar? The thing is, I really wish he had told me. Because I'd have been happy to keep nuts out of the shared kitchen had I known. It wouldn't have been that big a burden. Certainly less of a burden on me than what he was carrying alone. Would you want to help?

A thread about the a levels fiasco and algorithmic bias. From an ex machine learning engineer with a passion for social justice. #alevels2020 An algorithm has been used to decide students a level results this year as a result of #COVID19