The Law Says I'm Entitled to Accommodation. The Statistics Say That's a Technicality.
Global unemployment among autistic adults sits above 80%. General population unemployment is around 4%. That's not a gap, it's a different universe, and it exists next to a second number that makes the first one worse: 75% of autistic workers who are entitled to workplace accommodations under the law never receive them, because the law puts the burden on the disabled person to ask, and asking is its own risk. What "entitled to" means in practice and what it means on a statute page are two different things. The ADA says a qualified employee with a disability is entitled to reasonable accommodation. The Equality Act says the same thing in the UK. Entitled — a word that sounds like a guarantee and functions like an invitation you have to submit, get approved, and then hope gets honored consistently by whoever happens to be your manager that quarter. Tribunal cases citing neurodivergent conditions went from 265 in 2020 to 517 in 2025 — doubled in five years. That's no...
