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’m not autistic, but I’m schizophrenic. I’m able to function properly more than 95% of the time in modern society and even perform well in it. However, at my worst, my condition is such that a bad day at the wrong time could not only cost me my job but also real-life connections, which sucks. (I can also end up again in a closed facility, which is great fun.) This is why, apart from my close family and doctors, only one other person knows about my situation. I spiral really badly when it gets bad…which thankfully is extremely rare. But the threat of it hangs above me like a sword of Damocles.
Society as it currently exists isn’t really ready to handle people like me, and I’m pretty much dependent on Lady Luck.