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> I haven't seen one in 15 years across 5+ different companies.

Were you a solo founder of 5 companies? I literally cannot fathom that you worked at 5 even very modest-sized tech companies and never experienced a colleague with some level of what we’d call neurodivergent.

I can’t validate that the rate is 38%, but I find it hard to believe it’s under 5% and if it’s 5%, you’d be hard-pressed to avoid crossing paths across 5 companies and 15 years.

>>sokolo+(OP)
That's unfair. Even a founder of a company wouldn't have any legal means of knowing for certain the disabled status of their employees.

>>IAmBro+Z7
Federal contractors are required to track the percentage of self-identified disabled employees for reporting to the government.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-41/section-60-741.42

>>sokolo+(OP)
There's neurodivergant and there's neurodivergant. I've definitely worked with oddballs and nerds and various atypical folks. But there's a massive gulf between them and someone with legit no questions about it autism.