Warning: r slurs in the follow ups in the thread.
https://twitter.com/puella_meiberu/status/1708621428327657816
my reactions are as follows: Even if thats true, which it isnt for every autistic person, the reality is right now is that jobs dont have accomodations for neurdivergent thinking so its irrelevant to say that. Like we can push for and advocate for more inclusive workplaces, but its not the reality autsitic people are dealing with rn.
Especially since like, there are jobs that autistic people can do well but most of them are not "entry level" jobs that anyone can get without qualifications. Retail and food service jobs are near impossible for most autistic people and those are the jobs you can get easy. Manual labor jobs arent much better. I've worked at an after school program but I only lasted as long as I did because my original boss let me get away with not "running activities" the reality is that even if you're good with kids like me most jobs with kids have expectaitons that arent just "being good with kids" that arent good for autistic people. Idk about office stuff.
It reminds me of my ex-friend who claimed to be communist but had a lot of reactionairy attitudes. He always told me that if I ever called him on something and told him it was ableist he would take it seriously, and even called out others when they treated me abliestly. But one day when he posted on his Twitter shitting on Spoon Theory I texted him to call him on that and he started ranting all this shit about how you can "always push through" and talking about how his manual labor job cured his depression (and acting like that will be the case for everyone if they just push, and that manual labor is a cure all) and then started accusing me of wasting my life and making excuses and using my disability as a criticism shield. We no longer talk much lol.
I feel like you're coming at this a bit backwards, because you're seeing it as a "jobs" problem rather than an "employment productive" problem.
At the end of the day, every job needs to be an assembly line, because that's the only way Fordist minded employers are trained to think. If you can't work the assembly line, you're not sufficiently profitable. And that's that.
No accommodation can be made in a Fordist model, because deviation from the norm is always viewed as an extra expense.
This is, at its root, an administrative problem. The role administrators are (ostensibly) supposed to solve is workplace cohesion. But the only thing administrators know how to do is to shove square pegs into round holes.
Yeah, that last bit was my old boss who ruined my old job for me's problem. My first one was willing to work around my weaknesses and favor my strengths but the second one wanted to mold me into what was expected and refused to agknowledge my unique skills