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What a repulsive idea.

Just hire people based on how well they can do a job. You don't have to pigeonhole people into one of your shitty mental categories and then hire them.

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I used to hold the same opinion about positive discrimination for women and ethnic minorities, but now I realize that it's necessary to overcome people's instinctive prejudice. Most companies don't hire on how well you can do the job, they hire on how well they like you, and that encompasses all their prejudices. People can't just switch off their prejudice but if they're conscious of what it is, they can at least try to look past it.

I think the point was that current hiring practices filter out many autistic people due to the behavioral testing.

Currently autistic people generally have to be good enough at social stuff to pass as "normal" in the interview. The more socially challenged don't get a chance to prove they could do the job.

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