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A lifetime of work: My employment journey

  Approximately 95% of people with disabilities are unemployed and underemployed.  People with autism and other special needs simply want to be employed. Companies like Sodexo, Microsoft and Apple all hire people with disabilities.  I remember when I watched my sisters secure jobs out of high school. They worked at restaurants and picked up nannying jobs. I was happy for them but I had wondered what my future would be like.  I started to imagine what I wanted to do for a job.   My high school Chaparral High School offered a transition class for people with disabilities called Practical Assesssement Exploration Systems. In PAES, I was able to explore jobs in various fields like cooking and fcood management, office work and wood-working and machinery. The goal of PAES was to secure an internship. My parents would with Best Buddies Arizona to create and internship opportunity for me. I helped at the Best Buddies office with tasks like data entry...