J. L. Yocum

@ariane@tooting.ch @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party And I thought I had it bad at my last workplace when all I was going for was workplace accommodations like "Please let me wear headphones while I work" and "Can I please work in a room without overhead lighting." The hoops I had to jump through...

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party And the U.K. is by no means alone in its portrayal of newly-Dx'd neurodivergent workers as 'workshy benefit cheats' — it happens in the U.S. even though a) no such benefits actually exist in the U.S. for neurodivergent workers and b) in my experience, the only people who actually do any fucking work in any fucking workplace are the neurodivergent ones.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party (Pardon my French.)

@ariane@tooting.ch All of that just so I could wear headphones and tinted glasses at my desk, which is its own kind of corporate idiocy. (Interestingly, @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party — this was at one of those U.K.-based employers I mentioned earlier!)

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I see. While I don't live in the U.K., I did spend a full month there about 20 years ago, have worked a total of five years for U.K.-based employers, and have many close friends that do live there... and I have to say what you've described sounds very English to me (though by this I do not mean to negate all the wonderful things that are also very, very English — such as Staffordshire County oat cakes, miners' strike culture, curry sauce on chips and The Stone Roses).

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Curious what you mean when you say it’s “framed as a benefits culture led by overdiagnosis of neurodivergence.” Do neurodivergent people actually get *benefits* where you live?! Like, monetary benefits sizable enough they can decide not to work?! I am an autistic guy in the U.S. And I’m in a benefits-heavy region of my country (New York State). I can assure you that neurodivergent people do not get one measly freaking dime in pay-outs, not in this neck of the woods.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I see… but wouldn’t removing people from the labor pool (via job-replacing benefits) actually *increase* available jobs for those willing to work?

@Akki@toot.lgbt Fantastic! As an IWW member, I am always here for labor action and transference of power from the employing class to the working class.

@ariane@tooting.ch I'm definitely privileged myself — I managed to 'white knuckle' it through 45 years of life on earth before getting diagnosed with autism, through a combination of luck, supportive parents and sheer willpower. But I had to find a doctor to diagnose me as a middle-aged man just to get my aforementioned workplace accommodations, which was no small feat in the health-coverage desert that is the United States.