This one has taken me many months. The topic is employment/unemployment, wealth and poverty among autistic people in the U.S. Especially hard to write because my autistic daughter was struggling to find work throughout the spring. But Yay! She has a good job now and I have finished the chapter. Excerpts will go up on this site shortly.
Tag: Employment
“Likeability”
I’m working on my chapter on employment and housing right now, and I’ve learned that “likeability” is a real Human Resources thing. People interviewing for jobs actually get rated on “likeability”–the extent to which the people interviewing them are attracted to them. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, this is even worse in video conferencing. Apparently, during video interviews, likeability has more impact than a candidate’s persuasive arguments. And of course during the pandemic it’s almost all video interviews.
How can this be anything but discrimination against people with autism who, by definition, struggle with social interaction?