
Sir Simon Baron-Cohen
Desperately Seeking Wisdom
The Importance of Offering Opportunities for Autistic People to Work
I think what they were also saying was that there's an extraordinary resource that's just being wasted. Because we don't create an environment to make you work, which goes to your point about how neurodivergent people have been at the cutting edge of technological advance. So it's quite interesting. I certainly want to encourage companies and employers to reach out to autistic people or to make the job advert very clearly welcoming neurodivergence people to apply because there has been some inadvertent, perhaps discrimination against this group.
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