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When neurodivergent employee groups become unpaid consultants

Our employee resource group for neurodivergent workers keeps getting asked to educate the company about our needs, but we're all struggling with our own accommodations and some of us are barely keeping our jobs, so we can't be both advocates and examples.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A marginalized group is being asked to solve systemic problems while still experiencing those same problems themselves.

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“Where Are You with Neurodivergent identity — autism and ADHD?”

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