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all these interlocking global forces meant i had one question for one of the most important people in globalfinance, the managing director of the international monetary fund. kristalina georgieva, a real pleasure, my friend, having you on this show. and kristalina, lets start with this, because youve recently said a third of the world is heading into recession this year. how deep do you think the recession could be? what we are looking into is a tough 2023. as you know, we are already ...

companies cant find enough workers, so do they need to look harder? underrepresented groups like autistic and dyslexic people could do a lot to plug the skills gap, but employees need to do more work to recruit more of them. there is a greater level of innovation. you have people who think different, who act different, and who bring a totally new level of thought process into the solutions. im going to hearfrom jane gratton from the british chambers of commerce, about their skills gap ...

By recruiting from underrepresented groups. businesses themselves need to be more flexible and agile in the way that they manage the workplace. there are lots of people from underrepresented groups who would be very happy and would be very willing to move intojobs, would like to work, but are struggling to access the work because of potentially the interview process or because of a lack of adjustments in the workplace. for example, we know that very few autistic adults are in full—time work at...

Are quirky out there and maybe myself quirky. but as the years went by, i started to really realise that there was something different. and so when i came across that article, i was actually shocked to see that most of what they were talking about fitted with the behaviour that lars had been showing throughout the years. and just briefly, when you saw that article and you started reading, i guess, you know, diagnoses of autism, did the light bulb sort of come on? oh, yes, absolutely. yes. it was...

But there are also very many kind people that are able and willing, sometimes even quite eager to help, and perhaps be yourself. its very, very difficult... difficult to ask of autistic people, since its very difficult to know yourself. but, at least dont try to be someone who you are not which is called masking, which is very common among autistic people. the simplest advice is just do your best. thats all anyone can ask of you, as long as you do your best. wonderful advice, lars. lars backstro...

Spectrum and thats when we started the process rolling. isabel, im going to ask you to put lars back in front of the camera. a real pleasure. thank you for your time. thank you very much. thank you. there you go. welcome back, lars. so, lars, once you got the diagnosis, i want to ask you, how did you feel when you realised it? it was a bit of a mixed feeling. i mean, first of all, and the biggest of all was that i was relieved because now i had answers to my feelings of alienation and why so muc...

And she started thinking, "that does very much look like my husband." lars, im going to do something i never, never usually do. isabel, your wife, shes next to you, isnt she? yeah. can i have a quick word with her? well, yes, by all means. yeah, come on in, isabel. hi, isabel. hello. hello, isabel. lovely to have you and to see you. thank you. let me just ask you this. so you were doing this internet search and then you sort of put the pieces together. but isabel, did you have any thoughts prior...

Also, coming from a neurodiverse perspective, i can sometimes look at problems in a different way, but what am i good at? yeah, working hard and being very loyal and one thing is that i have, i have quite a developed empathy, that is another erratic stereotype of autistic people. that we dont have empathy. its actually, quite often, its quite the opposite. we have overdeveloped empathy. we dont have a filter. we cant filter out all the emotions around us. and that causes a bit of stress, actuall...

Yes, everywhere. yes, idid. with alienation, isolation, even bullying and harassment. lars, whats the biggest challenge that you find in the workplace? oh, thats an easy answer. social aspects. i like to consider myself actually quite social, but i dont understand social interaction and i send conflicting signals to the people around me. so it is a kind of a mutual misunderstanding. and also ijust have extreme difficulties with office politics. im just curious, what is it that you excel at? prob...

And she came across an article about autism in adults in 2013. and she started thinking, "that does very much look like my husband." lars, im going to do something i never, never usually do. isabelle, your wife, shes next to you, isnt she? yeah. can i have a quick word with her? well, yes, by all means. yeah, come on in, isabelle. hi, isabelle. hello. hello, isabelle. lovely to have you and to see you. thank you. let me just ask you this. so you were doing this internet search and then you sort ...