April was National Autism and Neurodiversity Awareness and Acceptance Month. In an effort to gain insight and additional information on how to make workplaces more diverse, inclusive and accommodating for autistic and other neurodivergent individuals, I spoke with Sam Farmer, a neurodiversity community self-advocate, writer, author, public speaker and consultant.
One of the first things Farmer said to me was that initially, he rebelled against the “disabled” label he had been assigned in the wake of his learning disability diagnosis