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Burnout is a term many people are familiar with. It happens when someone feels exhausted, overwhelmed, and unable to meet life’s constant demands. However, there is a specific type of burnout that affects autistic people called autistic burnout. While it shares some similarities, autistic burnout has unique features that must be understood to provide effective...
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Four Tips to Make Your Job Postings More Accessible As a leading employer of autistic professionals, we know firsthand the value neurodivergent talent can bring to the workplace. However, the traditional job application process can often present significant barriers for this talented pool of candidates. From overly complex job descriptions to interviews that fail to...
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Throughout this series, we have been “unmasking” autism through the perspectives of our own colleagues, Tonie and Jean-Julien. We were pleased at the response to our request to send us uncomfortable questions people had about autism, and Tonie and Jean-Julien brought not only their experience working with our colleagues but also their own lived experience...
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In previous articles, we have covered a lot of ground from our “Ask us Anything” event, from how to talk about autism, ways to respond to someone telling you they are autistic, and differences in social and communication styles. In this fifth instalment of our series, Tonie and Jean-Julien address questions about the challenges autistic...
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Welcome to the next instalment of our “Unmasking Autism” series, where we highlight some of the major themes from our recent “Ask Us Anything” webinar event. We have covered language, disclosure and, in our last article, autistic masking. One of the motivations behind this event and series was to get people to ask uncomfortable questions...
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In our last article, Tonie and Jean-Julien answered questions about how to respond if someone discloses that they are autistic and advice on avoiding assumptions and stereotyping. The discussion then progressed to masking and what role masking plays in understanding and being aware of someone’s identity. Jean-Julien and Tonie shared their personal experiences with masking:...
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In the first blog of this series from our recent “Ask us Anything” event, we discussed questions we received about language: What words to say, what not to say, questions about the medical versus social model of autism, etc. The next major theme is based on questions we received about disclosure. Things like “How do...
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One of the most prominent themes emerging from our invitation to submit anonymous questions was language: What words to say, what not to say, questions about the medical versus social model of autism, etc. We turned the question over to our experts.
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Recently, we hosted an “Ask Us Anything” webinar. We invited guests to submit questions anonymously to our autistic neuroinclusion experts.
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The report details the successes auticon and Unicus have seen since joining forces to become the world’s largest autistic-majority employer, a leading source for autistic technology talent and neuroinclusion services, and one of the largest social enterprises in the world.
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