What's it like to be in a workplace full of people when you are the only employee with autism?

I recently watched a few episodes of Survivor, and it was a lot like that where I failed to make social connections.

What does it feel like if your so-called neurotypical colleagues don't understand the way you communicate?

Autistic people are not like you. They're like themselves, you know?

And so what we really need to do is widen our ability to recognize talent and recognize skills that can boost companies' bottom line.

In Business Daily today with me, Jane Wakefield, I'm exploring the various ways that companies

can accommodate those on the autistic spectrum. And I'll be asking if autism-only offices

are the answer or whether more regular workplaces need to adapt to accommodate neurodifference.

A lot of people would think that our work in an environment would be very quiet,

and nobody would be communicating with each other.

That is not the case at all.

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It's a fun environment, easygoing, patient, really like an accepting type of place.

Once we're at the office and we're up and running, we mostly either are writing test cases

for features that we're going to be testing for different software or we are running the

tests and or logging and or fixing bugs.

So I found Autocon through a local regional center here in Los Angeles,

and my caseworker was like, oh, you should apply.

So I did, and I tried it out, and I've been working here for the past three years,

and I've loved it so far.

Peter Evan and Brian worked at a small software firm based by the beach in Santa Monica

in sunny Los Angeles, testing software and fixing bugs.

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