Key Facts
Knowing where you come from is almost as important as knowing yourself; it’s also very hard to do one without the other. This section was designed to help you get a sense of your demographic risks and strengths so that you can upgrade your decision making. Make science work for you, rather than against you!
The Pulse of A Community
Pilot programs at companies like Deloitte found that their divisions designed to accommodate neurodivergent talent were between 30% and 50% more productive than their neurotypical counterparts (Bouckley, 2022).
Despite this clear competitive advantage, at least 50% of hiring managers expressed feeling openly uncomfortable with hiring neurominorities.
About: The Trigger Warning Section
We do have a trigger warning section. Unfortunately neurodivergent individuals are more at risk of being harmed mentally and physically. Unfortunately these risks faced by the wider community are also far more lethal and intense for neurominorities who identify as women or Transgender 1 where almost every risk category is at least doubled compared to the concerning elevated risks faced by cisgender neurodivergent men.
Are We Trying to Scare You? No.
Some of our members have no idea how vulnerable we are to certain risk categories. Because of this, we would like to provide those who wish to be aware of their risks with the information you would need to develop prevention strategies on factors you can control because you will not hear about it on the news.
Your Mindset
- Being part of a high-risk marginalized community means that, uninformed, you are likely to live these statistics, and it is not because you are necessarily doing anything to cause your predicament.
- Many of your risk factors are not being narrated properly, if at all, by the news.
- This makes it harder for you to be informed because the information you otherwise would have access to does not include you.
- It matters to know whether you think you are sick because something is wrong with you or whether something is wrong with an institution/approach to therapy.
- It is not your fault that you were born into this mind, this body, and this society.
- Understanding the causal source of these risks directly can help you take better care of yourself and communicate what you need to others.
- Mainstream mentalities around navigating life will not include instructions for people like us, and sometimes they can even harm us if we are not careful and informed.
We would like those who do experience these risks who can handle this information to be able to know their repeated negative experiences, barriers to opportunities, and quality of life with seemingly causal combination, have very little to do with the content of their character.
- Being told what to do differently, even if good advice, is not enough. If one can handle it, we do need to know what the tradeoff of investing in a strategy is.
- It is possible to take the proper steps to change one’s odds with the right motivation and intervention.
References
Bouckley, Catherine. 2022. “Neurotypical Privilege in the Labour Market.” London School of Economics Business Review. [Crossref].