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Financial Systems Are Accessibility Tools: Building a Business That Doesn’t Depend on Your Best Day
During the worst period of my life, I learned that a business can either become one more thing its owner has to hold together, or it can be built to help hold them. My mom went into the hospital on October 5. Nine days later, she died. I'd been there every day, and I was there when she went into...
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Adulthood Isn’t a Birthday: The Systems That Make Financial Autonomy Possible for Autistic Adults
I became a legal adult on a birthday. Financial autonomy took longer. Those two things are constantly treated as though they happen at the same moment. At eighteen, the law can recognize a person as capable of signing contracts, opening accounts, consenting to services, travelling, working,...
