Untypical: How the world isn’t built for autistic people and what we should all do about it

by Pete Wharmby

To an uninformed outsider, an autistic person’s inability to move between different focuses can seem a terrible character flaw. Rather than seeing it as a central part of the disability that is ‘autism’, it’s seen as evidence that the individual is a feckless loser, impacting on relationships, employment and more.