With unemployment rising amongst the general population and a growing reluctance by the capitalist class to continue recruitment, now is harder than ever for us on the autistic spectrum to find work.
Since graduation over two years ago, I’ve found it really hard to find work. I’ve tried courses with the National Autistic Society (cunts) and Remploy, and have also approached Sacar and the Shaw Trust, and nothing has come of them. I’m no closer to even getting an interview, and my confidence remains lower than Living TV’s audience share.
As recruitment slows, the bosses will be more likely to fire people for petty reasons, and for the 15% of adults on the spectrum who are currently in work, their disabilities may give the ruling class a reason to sack them, and with the amount of money the state are using to prop up capitalism, it looks like they’ll get away with it.
Recently, the state have announced that people claiming incapacity benefit will be means tested to see what work they can do, but there’s no point of doing it when we’re being spurned by employers because they automatically assume that all disabled people, no matter how talented, are fuckwits incapable of doing the same job as normal, able-bodied people.
If we find ourselves without work and money to pay for essentials, we end up losing our confidence and give up completely. We feel alone, depressed and helpless, feeling that nothing can be done to get work, no matter hard we try. I know that I just about have.
As long as capitalism and the state exist, so will discrimination towards people with disabilities, and the only way to stop it is to smash them both.
Anarchoaspie
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