Now, I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before

[conuly]

but apparently not, as this editorial on a business that hires autistics deliberately is only a few days old.

Weird how that happens. Nothing really new here, it's not saintly to hire disabled individuals - heck, it's probably the law where you are, if not to seek out disabled people to hire to at least not discriminate against them and to give reasonable accommodations.

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[steorra]

I'm sure I've seen another article about he same company too. Even it being Danish sounds familar.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Jay: Many years ago, when I was just a wee young lad, I designed a button which said "Hire the Autistic" in large friendly letters. I may even have a few of them still around.

I will be so glad when the "Asperger syndrome" "High Functioning" thing stops. Next, they can stop the "with autism" stuff.

Gabe: "Only a small percentage of adults with autism are employed full-time in either the United States or Europe." Like hell!

They do not know they already have autistic people working for them and always have.

It's such a concept to so many people really. They do not see autism as just another thing. They think you're going to run on the walls and hang upside down from the ceiling and drip green slime all over.

[conuly]

I will be so glad when the "Asperger syndrome" "High Functioning" thing stops. Next, they can stop the "with autism" stuff.

In your dreams! I'm just happy if they stop "correcting" people who use the more natural term "autistic". Talk about missing the point...!

They think you're going to run on the walls and hang upside down from the ceiling and drip green slime all over.

OMG THAT WOULD BE SO COOL. But can it be blue slime instead? Blue is almost everybody's favorite color.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

That particular article is new, but there have been several articles about that company posted in various places on Livejournal in the past several years.

I myself will be glad when the term autism becomes obsolete because neuroscience, genetics and virology have advanced enough to figure out what's really going on with us, instead of lumping us all under one unhelpful label because we share some of a very broad range of traits. The autism/Aspergers and high/low functioning things are just further elaborations of the same erroneous notion, that categorization equals comprehension.

Heh, running on the walls and dripping green slime: Born of Man and Woman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_of_Man_and_Woman) by Richard Matheson. Mutants Rule!!!