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This is absolutely correct (curb-cut effect) but it’s also why employers will fight it.

The reason neurodiversity is such an issue for employers is that there’s no good way to measure people for talent (everyone needs to believe they are atypically talented in order to invent in the corporate “meritocracy,” even though it’s not a real one.) So instead they run on a system of blame and shared suffering, an attrition tournament that serves no purpose but is the best a company can come up with. Autistic people need exemption to thrive, but this is something everyone else wants—to be evaluated on merit rather than suffering—but that the firm, politically, will never be able to achieve.

Autism is an exaggerated version of the human experience. In many ways we are less robotic and more intensely human, with our hyper focus and extreme sensory experiences. Although we’re only about 5 percent of the population, there is a universality about us that makes us impossible for private sector firms to accommodate. If they treat us well, they have to treat everyone well, which is something executives will never stand for.