According to the U.S. Department of Labor in 2024, 85% of college-educated autistics are underemployed or unemployed, and these statistics do not include autistics with intellectual disabilities. 

All too often, the autistic community finds themselves begging corporations to see our inherent value, hoping for a chance at employment with thriving wages. Similarly, nonprofits host fundraisers under the pretense that autistics offer productivity and strategic advantages to the workplace if just given the chance - a view that often minimizes their humanity in favor for pure capitalistic gain for others but very rarely for themselves.
 
Curiously, entrepreneurship is never or rarely discussed when it comes to the autistic community despite being the most accommodating work environment available. Whether it's due to misconceptions about autistic people and their abilities or the fact that most people aren't sure how to make entrepreneurship work for them, it's not discussed as an option for disabled individuals to gain real and lasting economic power.
 
Daisy Montgomery, an autistic ADHD entrepreneur, author, and speaker, dives deep into how entrepreneurship can absolutely work for autistics - if they let go of the traditional messages of how it "should" be done and allow their quirks to guide them. Through honest and easy-to-digest talk about how to price your work, dealing with self-doubt, how to make sales in a way that feels good, creating systems that works for you, and more, Daisy's Autistic Business Academy is a funny and authentic look at what's possible for autistics when they embrace who they are.