We're starting up a neurodiversity employee resource group and promoting the neurodiversity ally program in my geography. I'm leading the charge, and I would like some ideas from the group about what you think are good first step initiatives and communications both for neurodiverse individuals and for helping the general population to understand as well.

Would appreciate any ideas or feedback! My first thought was comms on how to request workplace support and examples of reasonable support

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I co-founded the Neurodiversity ERG at amazon and would be happy to share my learnings. It's grown to 10,000+ people now. I agree that starting by creating a communication channel (email distribution list or slack channel) is the first step. Then organize some trainings and webinars specifically for ND employees. I see a lot of companies start with ND Awareness and Education but I recommend first doing events that add value to the ND employees themselves.

Also - partnering with the accommodation and benefit team is critical!

If you have any questions or want to discuss other ideas, just let me know!

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Sometimes when I request accomodations, they tend to talk down to me and I don't like that. It's not easy.

We have a fantastic group at PA - step 1 was community building (fortnightly virtual coffee dropins and a couple of panel events involving senior stakeholders) and awareness raising - a lot of ‘what is neurodiversity?’ Presentations to senior stakeholders, entire departments and even client offsites!

Building a sense that there is a significant population - and explaining neurodivergence- was the initial battle I think. Happy to discuss 1-on-1 if you like!

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