The ASM-spectrum people I know have way more emotional intelligence than this. I doubt he’s autistic—he’s just being willfully obtuse. I don’t pry into other people’s private lives, but I also don’t make unfounded assumptions about them based on my own self-centered view of the universe.

I didn’t see the importance of doing the workshop to get a rainbow placard to put on my office door because I just am an ally and didn’t feel I needed visual proof. Until it was explained that a student would appreciate being able to explain she missed class because her wife was in an accident or something without…

I was on board with your comment until the ‘autistic’ jab. What gives? Whyfore? Why is this the new insult? It sucks.

This is a good article. I wish any of the companies I have ever worked at had made me feel included the way these suggestions would. Once I worked at a company that said very vaguely “We’re a family, we accept everyone” (with no particular mention of accepting LGBT people). I sent in a question for the company town…