A very beautiful story on integrating autistic people back into the real world: rather than looking at people by their weaknesses, look at them by their strengths. The half-empty vs. half-full metaphor applied to disability, and with a great result. I certainly hope that this way of looking at the world can be taught to HR folk across the spectra – it would make human diversity and our ability to get along with one another by appreciating each other much easier!
/via +Scott Barry Kaufman
The Autism Advantage
Thorkil Sonne is betting that, given the right environment, an autistic adult could not just hold down a job but also be the best person for it.
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Asperger's served me very very well at the library. Numbers and all. I'm a SysAdmin now. I do have to avoid the politics bit, because I stumble a bit whenever it involves figuring out people. Of course, with people like a certain IBM employee I encountered here on Google+ the other day disregarding my remarks because they came from an autistic person… I imagine the challenge in proving that value is a steep hill.
We have our weaknesses, no doubt. But if you catalog a book with the wrong Dewey Decimal Number on it, I am going to find it. 😉
I saw this gentleman's presentation at EuroSTAR '06. Very impressive.