The Workplace Wasn’t Built for an Average Brain, Either

When you talk about “accommodations,” it often makes people think about only one end of that scale. It raises the irrational fear that someone will demand that everyone has to change in order to cater to one person’s needs. This leads managers and leaders to, instead of educating themselves and exploring how accommodations could occur, automatically instead embrace models that focus instead on solely forcing neurodivergent people to conform. (1) There are people whose disabilities — physical, cognitive, neurological, or psychiatric — do require large-scale accommodations in order for them to have access to an experience. While even these can be relatively unobtrusive, such as dedicating a low-stimulus area or periods of time where an attraction is open specifically for guests with special access needs (such as Sensory Friendly periods), sometimes “accommodations” are a lot simpler. Accommodations can even end up being something trivial. But it means a lot. At a recent event, the…