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How many with autism really want to work or are able to?

ClaireHig

Hi,

I just received an email from the national autistic society as many of you probably have also. It is asking us to sign a petition to put pressure on the government for us to get 'jobs we deserve'.

It claims:

But 77% of unemployed autistic adults, or people responding on their behalf, told us they want to work.


This got me thinking. How many of those responding were only doing so on behalf of those with autism, without stating how the autistic person really felt. For example if you ask my mother, she would say I do want to work. Stating I can & should want to work. She will then quote her Christian beliefs to say it's an order. But personally I don't wish to work because I know it leaves me suicidal etc, no matter how much support I were to have.

Obviously I'm not signing the petition. But it could still be signed by those such as my mother, on behalf of those with autism. Making it of benefit to the economy, but of little benefit to many with autism.

The state already tries to force us to work & refuses to acknowledge that many of us can't. It stops our benefit, leaving us with nothing to live on, pay bills with nor council tax (which many are now forced to pay). I view my council tax, as a tax on me having autism! All this seems against human rights & even migrants here don't have to tolerate this. This petition could give a very dangerous get out of jail free card to government, to do even worse.

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  • NAS22687 said:

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    They want to work but feel more comfortable at home, if the goverment could create job opportunitys to work online from home for people with autism i 100% belive you would have lots more autistic people working.

    This bit in particular is something that I've repeatedly asked about and repeatedly been refused: I'm a computer programmer, I can work from home effectively and indeed I did so in the mid '90s.  It worked very effectively: I got my work done without the stress and distractions, I didn't start work knackered because I only commuted across my landing, the company saved money because it wasn't required to house me in an office.

    But since then?  No chance.  In spite of the technology having advanced in that time and there being more and more of a reason for allowing working from home what with the congested roads and stuff, every manager I've worked for has been a supicious, distrusting, shoulder-surfing control-freak.  So my options were work in an unpleasant office environment or don't work at all.  So I worked in an office environment until my health deteriorated to the point where I didn't work at all.  So unnecessary.

    Sadly, I don't see attitudes changing, at least not without legislation.  Unless there's an obligation on employers to treat their staff with the appropriate level of consideration and basic humanity, many of them won't ever do it.  Yet the person who finds themselves unable to work is the one who's maligned as a lazy, feckless scrounger who has no use to society because they're a broken machine not making money for somebody else.  I suppose it's rather apparent that I'm less than impressed with some judgemental attitudes I've encountered in that regard; which, incidentally, invariably come from some of the laziest bums I've ever known.

    As you explained it is the perfect type of work for people with autism

    And there is so much potential in this area of work, the goverment needs to open it up to us because they can give us these opportunites they just need to create them because employers wont.

    Working from home online i personally belive is the best option.

    And especially for you having the experience you do as a computer programmer

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  • NAS22687 said:

    [quote][/quote]

    They want to work but feel more comfortable at home, if the goverment could create job opportunitys to work online from home for people with autism i 100% belive you would have lots more autistic people working.

    This bit in particular is something that I've repeatedly asked about and repeatedly been refused: I'm a computer programmer, I can work from home effectively and indeed I did so in the mid '90s.  It worked very effectively: I got my work done without the stress and distractions, I didn't start work knackered because I only commuted across my landing, the company saved money because it wasn't required to house me in an office.

    But since then?  No chance.  In spite of the technology having advanced in that time and there being more and more of a reason for allowing working from home what with the congested roads and stuff, every manager I've worked for has been a supicious, distrusting, shoulder-surfing control-freak.  So my options were work in an unpleasant office environment or don't work at all.  So I worked in an office environment until my health deteriorated to the point where I didn't work at all.  So unnecessary.

    Sadly, I don't see attitudes changing, at least not without legislation.  Unless there's an obligation on employers to treat their staff with the appropriate level of consideration and basic humanity, many of them won't ever do it.  Yet the person who finds themselves unable to work is the one who's maligned as a lazy, feckless scrounger who has no use to society because they're a broken machine not making money for somebody else.  I suppose it's rather apparent that I'm less than impressed with some judgemental attitudes I've encountered in that regard; which, incidentally, invariably come from some of the laziest bums I've ever known.

    As you explained it is the perfect type of work for people with autism

    And there is so much potential in this area of work, the goverment needs to open it up to us because they can give us these opportunites they just need to create them because employers wont.

    Working from home online i personally belive is the best option.

    And especially for you having the experience you do as a computer programmer

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