POSH, plus nonvisible disabilities

Many nonvisible disabilities are neurological in nature, particularly given that presence of a chronic medical condition increases likelihood of having or developing a mental health condition (NIMH, 2021). Coupled with a decreasing or stagnating population growth rate in western countries (Roser et al., 2013) is an increasing incidence of neurodiversity and other chronic conditions. Long COVID, a new chronic condition, affects as many as one in five US adults, according to the CDC (2022) with a recent meta-analysis finding a higher global pooled prevalence of long COVID of .43 (Chen et al., 2022) and increased rates of depression (Perlis et al., 2021). The unemployment rate for employable autistic adults is approximately 85% (Mahto et al., 2022) with unemployment across all types of neurodiversity estimated to be 30–40% (University of Connecticut, n.d.).