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Hans Bruintjes

Hans Bruintjes

Dutch attorney and Utrecht University researcher on discrimination against neurodivergent people; founder of NeuroVacant and SpectrumAssist.

Sep 21, 2026

2:04
Being that you're Dutch, what has been your autistic experience living in the Netherlands? All things are very
2:12
well in an NSV when it comes to assisting each other, even in our spare time, we are making appointments and they will give you a needed structure that you want to have in a day and also Dutch people are very direct in comparison to the rest of the world.
2:34
So in that direct communication which autistic people understand the best.
2:41
So that are the best parts of the Dutch culture for autistic people.
2:48
Uh, but, but some, we also see some things that I don't think it's a specific Dutch problem, uh, that are less, uh, uh, finer to ask for example, ideas like, uh, studying at a higher university, the line that that's not a possible for everyone.
3:16
and invite autistic people, weekends, CRE effort.
3:22
an inaccessible education for most of us.

7 MINS LATER

9:56
Yes, I understand that, Hans, because how can you make policy without taking into account lived experience? It's one of the main reasons I started this podcast in 2018, because of the importance of lived experience.

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