Slow mental processing

[Judge]

Just wondering but, is part time work or partly working from home possible for autistic people in the US as an accomodation?

Not any more. Enough time has lapsed since the pandemic that the corporate world is now requiring nearly everyone to work in the office as opposed to home. Making things quite difficult for those with more domestic responsibilities. Regardless of considerations of "accommodations" for much of anyone.

 

[FayetheAspie]

There are still some things that can be done from home (like if you have an Etsy shop or something).

 

[Outdated]

Not any more.

Strange. Here they encourage people on a disability pension to work any way they can because the more money they earn the less benefits they get paid. We're not forced to work in any way but they'll give us every encouragement if we sound eager.

Here a political party that wanted to end work from home just lost the election by a landslide, that's not the biggest reason they lost but it's certainly one of the reasons.

 

[Crossbreed]

Here they encourage people on a disability pension to work any way they can because the more money they earn the less benefits they get paid.

Our food assistance program works in a similar fashion. For every countable dollar you make, you lose $0.50 of benefit. So, it is still an improvement --as long as you remember put $0.50 of each dollar back into food.*

*My ASD2 son sees earned money as unrestricted money and starves himself by not making that adjustment. (He has executive dysfunction issues.)

 

[Judge]

Strange. Here they encourage people on a disability pension to work any way they can because the more money they earn the less benefits they get paid. We're not forced to work in any way but they'll give us every encouragement if we sound eager.

Here a political party that wanted to end work from home just lost the election by a landslide, that's not the biggest reason they lost but it's certainly one of the reasons.

Not so strange when you consider that this isn't about government policy, but rather a shift of the private sector. Not about revenue enhancement, but rather corporate control. That they want their people where they can see them at all times, rather than contemplate a perception of potential lost productivity.

Starting with Elon Musk some time ago telling his own employees to return to the workplace or be terminated.

 

[Chonebox]

My processing speed is slow. With time to think things through I might make 100% on a math test but then turn around and look like a bumbling idiot at a cash register when trying to count out my money because I need time to process and you are typically supposed to do that quickly. I can't keep up with register work because if someone changes what they gave me I can't just smoothly recalculate it in my mind. Because of my typically high test scores, it is hard to get some people to realize that this is a genuine struggle for me. Then people who only see that aspect tend to think I'm quite low IQ when I'm not, I just need longer processing time.

I know what you mean. This lady called me stupid because I had difficulty making correct change. This was more than 20 years ago btw.