This is fantastic. Some of those accommodations are great. I’m really hopeful that this program can be a success for all involved. However, I wish google would

This is fantastic. Some of those accommodations are great. I’m really hopeful that this program can be a success for all involved. However, I wish google would partner with Autistic self-advocacy orgs or orgs that don’t support harming us, like ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network) or any of the bigger orgs ASAN recommend. No, the Autistic community doesn’t always agree on things, but I think we can agree that as the saying goes, nothing about us without us. The Els org mentioned has a couple of Autistic advisory board members, which is just slightly better than none, so I’ll give them that. However, they base their schools on the inherently harmful ABA, they use the puzzle piece and “person first” language to remind each other Autistic people are in fact people, and some of their staff work with eugenics org Autism Speaks. All of those things are the antithesis of understanding and advocating for Autistic people imo. (NB: some Autistics like the puzzle piece or pf language, as is their right) I can’t find any useful information on the Stanford program. I want to know if there are any Autistic or otherwise neurodiverse people involved and what the org supports. I find it interesting that google partnered with this Els org. It’s like they did enough research to know that Autism Speaks is unequivocally evil (and are of the belief that Autistic folks should either be warehoused, or should be ‘fixed’ by ABA abuse thus require no supports/accommodations at all as adults, so they wouldn’t want to be part of this program anyway, but I digress) so google found an org just inoffensive enough at first glance to use instead. I might be reading too much into it, but I’m really curious why they chose that org. I know google and other companies with similar programs aren’t doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. I just hope that the Autistic people involved really benefit and don’t end up more exploited than their allistic (not Autistic) colleagues. Starting to address some of the complex issues why most of us don’t/can’t work is a great start and could really improve some people’s lives.