Some #autistic people express #care through problem-solving, sharing a similar experience, or being direct.
Asking what someone meant before drawing conclusions can help avoid misunderstandings. #communication

Perhaps the ultimate test of empathy is recognizing that someone else may express it differently.

#Autism #Neurodiversity #Empathy #psychology #autistic #neurodivergent

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The cycle of biased practices begetting more biased practices can be clearly illustrated by analyzing #neuroexclusion at work.

Technology can magnify and scale biased #hiring practices.
Using data collected in unfair systems to train algorithmic selection codifies bias.
#Fairness in hiring must start with #humans designing and establishing fairer systems. #neurodiversity
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"When uncredited knowledge is extracted from communities with less societal power and used for the benefit of those with more power, the opportunity gap deepens and the community experiences cumulative harm." #neurodiversity #justice #power

"From its inception, the #neurodiversity paradigm also functioned as a #moral rejection of a clinical and #research tradition that had pathologized, excluded, infantilized, and denied #neurodivergent people epistemic authority and self-determination."

Can unjustly produced research support just practice?

I think the assumptions we make seep into everything we do.

That is why I wrote this article. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

#neurodiversity #research #HumanResources #psychology #practice #fairness #education #learning

Awareness, acceptance, inclusion, empowerment - all assume a hierarchy of #humans. True, lasting fairness is non-hierarchical #dignity.
Neurodignity is the foundation of the unconditional place of #neurodivergent people in society.

#neurodiversity #culture
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#Autistic experience can be intensely, gloriously joyful—when we are not forced to fit into someone else’s procrustean expectations of what a good life is "supposed" to look like. Background of purple flowers. #neurodiversity #joy #emotion #psychology
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