Happy Autistic Pride Day!
Every day is Autistic Pride Day at Incorrect Pleasures. May your pleasures be truly pleasurable, regardless of how psychologically or socially correct they might be.
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Happy Autistic Pride Day, Lili!
Not much happening here in Adelaide, unless I've missed it. Later this morning everyone in the State Government office where I work is attending a lecture on 'Fair Treatment in the Workplace'. I wondered if the date of 18/6 had been chosen for a reason, but, no, it was just a coincidence.
I'll be tempted to ask a question along the lines of "Treating everyone fairly is excellent, but how about also being pro-active in making the best use of the diversity of abilities, perceptions and modes of thinking that people have to offer?"
I guess your meeting is over now, David. Hope you had a great day. Your question (statement really) is an excellent idea, but I don't see a policy of diversity in the workplace as being something over and above the level of basic fairness in the workplace. It is clearly a common enough thing for people to be denied any place at all in the workplace because they are different, not because they can't do the job, and that clearly isn't fair. I hope labour shortages might make such discrimination impossible in the future. The public service of our state has a long record of attracting and then losing intelligent autistic people. I hope they will learn one day.
I doubt that there is anything happening in my city today for APD. I was never under any delusion that autists are the type of people to gather in bustling groups or parade in the street, but that's OK.
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