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To hire and retain tech talent with disabilities, you must go above and beyond the ADA laws. The laws that protect individuals with disabilities during the hiring process and during employment aren't sufficient to create a truly supporting and welcoming environment. ADA laws are minimum standards. They don't create a supportive environment.
And why not? Humans, we’re a complicated bunch, and for most of our history, we have tried in various ways to understand ourselves. One of the best, and most devastating ways, is through measurement. It makes sense: if someone has the most number of something, whether it is money, land, or children, then that is measured by the rules of their society as success. But this can lead to terrible things, ranging from eugenics to genocide. If someone does not measure up to the rules that the governing party that oversees them, then life can--and usually does--become incredibly difficult for them.
If you’re reading this, you already know how to use technology to find helpful resources from organizations like SPORK! These helpful posts and resources from writers who have some of the same challenges as you do can come in handy for living a more fulfilling life. But did you know that technology can also help you achieve a more successful career? If not, you definitely need to check out this list of some of the big ways tech can help you reach your career goals.
The parents, crowned as the figures who nurture and protect their children with their intuitive wisdom and championed guidance, have taken the dark path by investing their free time in ambushing, whether or not unconsciously, those who they think are “different” from them. Not only are their actions considered as a waste of dignity but also a knife to the graceful philosophy of parenting.
Words matter. I’ve been hearing that phrase a lot lately in the context of today’s social climate, referring to race, religion, ethnicity--any aspect of human interaction. It is true. It’s true because words have power--they can make us cringe when they are ugly and demeaning. They can uplift us when they are empowering and kind. As citizens of the world, when we become educated about issues that affect others and ourselves, our choice of language evolves as does our social consciousness.
“It doesn’t help me if you hide your feelings.”
“I’m not hiding them, I just don’t know how to verbalize them.”
“I get that. I do. But you can’t just not talk about these things. It will eat you up inside.”
“Maybe. But I’m not nearly as scared for Isaac as you are right now. I don’t see surgery as elective. If he needs surgery at some point we will deal with it, but otherwise, for me, worrying while waiting isn’t going to help him.”
As I bring out the tomatoes and pull out an 8” kitchen knife my right arm grows tense and my palms start to sweat. The weight of the knife all of a sudden feels firm yet alien; it feels almost too comfortable in my hand. I pretend to not stare at the few thin residue scares from bleak years before that faintly decorate my wrist. An hour earlier I had a tumultuous confrontation with a close friend and so my funneled thoughts overturning each said word makes my mind and body feel separate from one another. I feel distant but desperate to reach a mental conclusion to the argument so that I can stem the bruised emotions. My obsessive mind can’t move forward without resolution, so it gets stuck in a mental cycle of repeated half-assed solutions. My soul is dying to stop being tormented by the sickly familiar parasite that randomly turns thoughts into a low pressure-chamber.
We depend on the weekly therapies that our children get, because we want to see them increase their skills, and not lose them through disuse. Unfortunately, at least in our case, all therapies have gone virtual, and so now our weekly hours of therapy are spent sitting in front of a screen.
Do you support businesses that support a better life for everyone? If you don’t know the answer to that question, it’s time to reevaluate your spending habits. Fortunately, you don’t have to have a huge budget or significantly change your shopping patterns to have an impact on causes that matter to you. All you really have to do is direct your resources to businesses that funnel their financial power into the right channels.
Dating is not always easy and everyone experiences uncertainty about whether they are reading the signals from their potential partner correctly. However, when you throw autism into the mix, this can complicate things further.
If you are on the autism spectrum, it’s only natural to want to tell if a girl likes you so let’s look at some of the signals, both via text and face to face, which can make reading the situation easier.
