Having read and appreciated Frances Ryan’s view (Jeremy Hunt says focus on the ‘economically inactive’. I say he is scapegoating the sick, 7 February), I believe that there is another angle from which to view this debate. I have a formal NHS diagnosis of autism (and PTSD) and I have now failed to keep 48 jobs. Jeremy Hunt has, apparently, yet to consider that at least some of the “economically inactive” may actually have been repeatedly and very firmly rejected by employers. I have been removed from all manner of jobs in a wide variety of careers.
From personal experience, a large part of the problem actually lies with employers. Employers complete tick-box disability accreditations, which satisfy the government targets, but leave them completely and utterly unable to cope when they are actually faced with an autistic individual. To reiterate bluntly, I don’t leave employment by choice – employers make very sure that I leave them.
