Thank you for sharing this information. It will be helpful for me even if I live in Europe. God bless you! 🙏😘.

Please do not say "with autism." This talk reflected a lack of understanding of the double empathy problem and a very deficit-based concept of autism, though I realize under the ADA and the DSM medical model, we are currently treated as such in the context under discussion We are autistic people and we are part of nature and the human race. Autism is not, *itself* a disability, deficit, disorder or disease. It is not an illness or affliction and we don't "have" it We dont have slow processing, we have more processing. Meltdowns and other issues are often caused by masking and is an outcome of the autistic person bearing all the cost of diversity that the culture is not metabolizing. This is like a scapegoat child in a narcissistic family system. In many places in this talk, accomodations for perceived deficits were discussed, where education about differences and skills of collaboration could have been discussed. This still leaves the responsibility on the autistic person and is infantilizing, pathologizing and invalidating. Most of the time, the culture or environment can be improved for all such that everyone benefits rather than locating a deficit into the autistic person as a pure cost deficit I still found this talk valuable and interesting and hope that my direct, autistic-style feedback will be taken in the spirit of helping in which it was intended