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Who Was the Office Built For? · Neurodivergent Spaces: The Standard Isn't Neutral

Who Was the Office Built For? · Neurodivergent Spaces: The Standard Isn't Neutral19 Aug28 min

Send us Fan Mail Most buildings and workplaces are built around one narrow prototype of how a person should communicate, learn and behave — and that choice stops looking like a choice once it becomes the standard. Drawing on Eva Redford's research-based essay How Society Excludes Autistic People by Design, this episode traces how institutions turn neurological difference into disadvantage without anyone needing to hold a biased thought. As Redford puts it: normal is not neutral, and it never ...