Danny Combs

Now, if you said person with autism versus autistic, it's flip-flopped, right?

Rather than missing the message of what we were trying to achieve, they got caught up in the language.

I use that because they're well meaning they didn't mean anything by it other than the sense that by taking energy from what's the opportunities being presented to focus on things like that you are missing a greater opportunity to unify around a team and actually get that genuine

job or career for that individual.

I mean, that's just an example, but I think we need to come together and do that.

And I think, you know, in the neurodiversity community as a whole, it seemed like last year there was almost a setback where folks that were getting in this DEI space missed that really neurodiversity.

In addition to that is a return on investment.

It's a value proposition.

And if the language shifts to the value proposition and return on investment for businesses in a unified way, that's a much stronger argument to make for programs supporting our community.

Yeah, I agree.

100%.

I think we need more folks saying that same thing because you're exactly right.

A hundred percent.

And I think that's where like truly buying into the notion of changing the environment and not asking the individual to change, like meeting the individual where they're at, where you want to go and then elevate them to that level.

I think traditional education and training programs where they've suffered and where they've in all fairness, you know, in a public school setting, for example, those teachers just aren't set up for success.

They're just not.

The classrooms are too big.

They don't have enough resources.

They don't have enough support.

They shoot down the middle and it's like the bell curve.