Thanks so much for posting this, it makes a lot of sense to me. I am watching a TedX talk by Monique Botha - she is is doing wonderful work to expose the real reasons for the prevalence of anxiety and depression among autistic people, and she is autistic. Found this TedX talk by Monique on YouTube which is brilliant (please note the risk of suicide is discussed but in a very sensitive way): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NCAErePScO0 The talk starts with an overview of what autism is, her discussion of mental health and autism starts at about 9:22
This talk is very relevant to issues at work Tom - Monique says 80% of autistic people are bullied at work, she also says 42% of autistic people lose their jobs because they can't fit in socially.
Monique includes a quote from the UN which says that for autistic people discrimination is the rule, not the exception. I'm sure many of us will endorse this.
