Here’s why employers should do more to embrace neurodiversity in the workplace – CBCNeurodiverse people have long been unfairly accused of laziness or procrastination, ADHD expert saysOct 21, 2024When Rebecca Shaw was diagnosed with autism, she found it liberating. She says it helped her make sense of how her brain works, and the different way she thinks. Shaw says she shared her diagnosis with her employer, and shortly after that lost her job. She got another similar position, and was terminated again, she believes because her manager found her accommodation needs too challenging. This is despite very valuable skills she brought to her workplace, such as her ability to problem solve and to see patterns in data.
