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So it's no surprise at all to also read that interviews are autistic people's Achilles' heel, and that unemployment has been estimated to be 85% -- higher than for any other disability. (No, I'm not making this up, and I'm not exaggerating. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_of_autistic_people)

If you are an HR person, a hiring manager, or anyone else connected with or tangential to the interview and hiring practices of your organization, I urge you to consider the impacts your interview process has on autistic people. You might have no idea that your company's hiring practices are discriminatory, and they may be designed with the best intentions in mind, but that makes them no less discriminatory. It's easy to *accidentally* discriminate when it comes to disability, and autism in particular. You don't even have to hold any prejudices against autistic people; mild levels of ignorance are enough.

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