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Anonymous wrote:If you are a functional adult, you don't have Asperger's.
Absolutely false.
Many thriving adults have Asperger's. You might want to try reading an article about the condition before you post on DCUM.
Unfortunately, the statistics just don't back that up. The social skills required for jobs and relationships are very challenging for those with autism.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2017/09/how_autism_complicates_the_path_to_employment.html
Autistic adults may very well be the most disadvantaged disability group in the American workplace.
Only 14 percent of adults with autism held paid jobs in their communities, according to one May report from Drexel University’s Autism Institute (the report looked just at those who had received state developmental disabilities services).
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/health/irpt-autism-in-the-workplace/index.html
Becky Ketts, the director of rehabilitation services at Nobis Works, finds jobs for people on the autism spectrum while they go through the organization's training program. These training programs last anywhere from three months to a year, and teach everything from anger management to customer service.
These "soft skills" are essential for success in the workplace, Ketts explains, especially for those with autism disorders.
"Even the thought of interviewing for a job can be overwhelming for someone on the autism spectrum. That is such an intimate setting. That alone can keep people from finding a job," Ketts said.
https://www.theguardian.com/tmi/2016/oct/27/11-shocking-statistics-about-autism-and-employment
Fewer than one in six autistic adults are in full-time employment
Under 16% of survey participants have full-time paid work. This figure has hardly changed since 2007, when a previous National Autistic Society survey put the figure at 15%.[1]
A further one in six have part-time work
The survey finds that 16% are in part-time employment. This, at least, is an improvement on 2007, when that figure was 9%.[1]
In all, less than a third of autistic adults have any kind of paid work
Only 32% are in some kind of paid work, compared with 47% of disabled people and 80% of non-disabled people.[2]
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