They really cater to Autistics now in Canada. You can cut yourself on the job and if you're autistic your coworkers can be prosecuted for telling on you!

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Dawson started working at Canada Post in 1988 and was widely seen as an exemplary employee. But everything went downhill after she disclosed her diagnosis to Canada Post in April 1999, she testified.

After she appeared at work in July 1999 with self-inflicted wounds - a behaviour often seen among those with autism - some employees felt threatened and sent a letter of concern to management.

Dawson testified that Canada Post treated her as a non-person and acted as if autistic people were bizarre, difficult and unable to speak for themselves.

She also accused specific employees of making discriminatory and harassing comments to her, including one who asserted she had mutilated herself in front of her co-workers.

The tribunal found those remarks to be discriminatory because they “brand Dawson as a violent person in relation to her disability, a perception which is totally, given the evidence, gratuitous.”

It also found that Canada Post managers were guilty of harassment for pressuring Dawson to submit to an independent medical evaluation.

The tribunal said it was “disturbing” that autistic people were seen as a threat to the safety of others and “some form of nuisance in the workplace.” They need to be reassured, it said, that employers will do “everything possible short of undue hardship” to dispel such misconceptions among their employees.