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An autistic professional is up to 140% more productive than an average employee when properly matched to a job that fits their skills, according to\u00a0<\/span>Ludmila Praslova<\/a>, an autistic professor of organizational psychology. Still, discrimination against\u00a0<\/span>neurodivergent people<\/a>\u00a0continues because most of the \u201ccommon\u201d workplace practices at the workplace are established for\u00a0<\/span>neurotypicality<\/a>. The author offers a few strategies to help neurodivergent employees take control of their own success at work. (more..<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An autistic professional is up to 140% more productive than an average employee when properly matched to a job that fits their skills, according to\u00a0Ludmila Praslova, an autistic professor of organizational psychology. Still, discrimination against\u00a0neurodivergent people\u00a0continues because most of the \u201ccommon\u201d workplace practices at the workplace are established for\u00a0neurotypicality. The author offers a few strategies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,6,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asd-autism","category-aspergers","category-autism","category-autism-spectrum","category-employment","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/A_Dec21_14_Maria-Hergueta.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.aspergerworks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}