“I could tell she had no idea my son was autistic. She asked him why he wasn’t in class and …and he looked away and wouldn’t say anything else.”
A massive 85% unemployment rate among college-educated autistic adults while the general population’s unemployment rate (at all education levels) is only 3.9%.
Have you ever heard a seemingly successful and ‘high-functioning’ Aspie try to explain how exhausting a day at work can be, or say that Asperger’s
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