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I am an employment lawyer and I generally think it is helpful for you to not shy away from disclosing your disability. For one, good employers recognize applicants who have experienced adversity and come from underrepresented communities like persons with disabilities to be an ASSET and not at all a negative. As long as you can perform the essential functions of the job you are seeking with a reasonable accommodation (or without if you don't need any accommodations), you should be confident in presenting your full self and being upfront about any disability you have and may or may not need an accommodation for in the future. Employers are prohibited from discriminating against you in hiring and like I said, the good employers that you want to work for actually value the diverse perspective and representation you bring as an applicant. If you think you may need some form of accommodation for your disability in order to be able to successfully perform your job, then there is no reason to delay the topic and instead you should find a way to personalize yourself as a candidate by sharing that part of your identity and including it in your personal narrative/pitch. Depending on what disability you have, I can direct you to some awesome resources for hiring and job advice and what kind of accommodations you may want to consider requesting. Askjan.org is a great website if you want to get a sense of the typical types of disability accommodations that are usually available and deemed reasonable for each type of disability. As for employers, I think there are a ton of companies that have adopted hiring strategies to increase the number of disabled employees in their workforce. Some companies are targeting particular disabilities that are less represented - i.e. I have heard of a lot of initiatives aimed at recruiting employees on the autism spectrum recently because historically ASD employees have marginal representation compared to the percentage of the workforce that identifies as ASD. I would research companies that have strategic hiring plans for ADA protected applicants to get a better idea, but some of the bigger names I know of are google, Uber, Target, Walgreens, Lowes, Acme, Ikea, Ranstad, Ford, Bank of America, JP Morgan, USAA, Starbucks, IBM, SAP, Accenture, Ernst & Young, Aetna, KPMG, Cisco Systems, UPS, Proctor and Gamble, ADP, Kaiser, Hilton, Prudential Financial, Wells Fargo, Mayo Clinic, Mastercard, Abbott, Capitol One Financial, Eli Lilly, Comcast NBCUniversal and TONS more. Please let me know if I can answer any questions about employment protections or similar issues you may want to understand better, but I hope you find some great companies to explore because there are a lot of amazing diversity initiatives out there for employees with disabilities and I hope you find the perfect fit for what you want in a career path.
The Federal Government is a decent place. They have special hiring opportunities for people with disabilities. Ask your school’s disability office for help. You need to have your disability documented and then request a Schedule A letter. The Schedule A special hiring authority allows an agency to onboard you without going through the traditional process. Look to your state’s vocational rehabilitation agency for help too.