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Is doing a good job about fitting in? Or doing it well?

longman

I thought it worth posing this questions as it underlies a lot of the problems faced by people on the spectrum in obtaining employment.

We currently live in a society where fitting in is more important than ability to do a good job. The work place is a social environbment. Many hours of productivity are lost by the amount of time frittered away by employees socialising on the job, when they should be getting down to it. Promotion often depends on joining Round Table or Freemasons, whether your partner is a good cook and has people round for candlelit suppers.

The BIG problem for this country atr the moment is the capacity of employees to waste time at work.

People on the spectrum have the unusual and valuable talent of being able to focus on a job and stay with it to completion. They don't need social displacement activity.

Yet often they cannot gain or hold down a job, primarily because they cannot do the social bit.

British employers should wake up to the value of hard working committed employees not being allowed to work just because they cannot socialise.

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  • More needs to be done to change this attitude in employers. It's all very well and good the government churning out endless schemes to get people into work (which never actually work), but they always act as if the employers are blameless in the level of unemployment. We are encouraged to just go for any old job and told not to bother focussing on our strengths. For people with ASD, this is far from an ideal situation. Social skills are so highly prized today that people are forgetting that they are skills - some people have them, some people ain't. Just like not everyone has the skills required to be a brain surgeon. It's not fair that we are made to feel worthless and like we can't contribute towards society when we could actually contribute a great deal if we were actually given the chance. This is why I want to create a working environment that allows people with ASD to flourish (I made a separate thread about it somewhere on the forum). I just need support and financial backing and I don't have a clue where to get either of those

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  • More needs to be done to change this attitude in employers. It's all very well and good the government churning out endless schemes to get people into work (which never actually work), but they always act as if the employers are blameless in the level of unemployment. We are encouraged to just go for any old job and told not to bother focussing on our strengths. For people with ASD, this is far from an ideal situation. Social skills are so highly prized today that people are forgetting that they are skills - some people have them, some people ain't. Just like not everyone has the skills required to be a brain surgeon. It's not fair that we are made to feel worthless and like we can't contribute towards society when we could actually contribute a great deal if we were actually given the chance. This is why I want to create a working environment that allows people with ASD to flourish (I made a separate thread about it somewhere on the forum). I just need support and financial backing and I don't have a clue where to get either of those

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