Accommodation Or Abuse: The False Choice Managers Have With #Neurospicy Employees
Do you want to be a leader or manager who actually works with your neurodivergent employees, or do you want to create a hostile, toxic, and inefficient work environment because of the fragility of your ego?
@StevenSaus@autisticadvocacy@actuallyautistic
..because running an efficeint business for the collective good comes in second place to wedging oneself into the structure and not being shown up for any perceived deficiencies.
my girlfriend found this, and it's ... indescribable, what this means to me. my Hebrew name is Yonah, bc I felt so drawn to him as a biblical character, and yet I wasn't fully able to put my connection to him into words, until this article
"We know why Jonah runs because the prophet himself tells us at the end of the text. Jonah objects that God spares the Assyrians the consequences of their actions. They have done evil and they do not deserve to retain their status as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Jonah is not particularly impressed with the fasting and the public repentance; but he knows that God finds such behavior acceptable and averts their doom. If Jonah knows that there will be no real change and that Nineveh’s might and cruelty will ride roughshod over his people, why should he prophecize to them? Why do they not deserve justice?"
the idea of my namesake as an autistic dude who has no interest in participating in the absolution of bullies and abusers, who is "grieved unto death" over the loss of a giant plant, who struggled with haShem and is RIGHT ... it makes my name and my identity fit me more than I knew when I first chose them
One difference I see between mastodon and twitter:
On twitter the autistic community is very large, and issues regarding such things as hashtags, acceptance of self-assessment, etc, have been substantially worked out a long time ago. There are some disagreements that arise from time to time, but on these core ideas it's just a few individuals who oppose acceptance of self-assessment.
The concepts associated with the neurodiversity paradigm are widely supported.
My own dislike of twitter was (and is) mostly centered around the silo effect of Twitter structure. There are influencer accounts that dominate discussions, towering over the crowd like big vertical silos, and most significant discussions that get any real notice occur within those silos. It's really hierarchical, and vertical rather than horizontal. I've written threads there which discuss this and while there were a lot of supportive people who agreed with me, some didn't, and a few of the huge influencer accounts took a disliking to me. Names some of you would be familiar with.
Yep, that really happened.
Seems most autistics there don't mind that top-down structure, which is why they stay there, I guess.
It is a much bigger world there, that is true.
I really like the relative degree of absence of that verticality here on Mastodon.
oh wow, thank you for explaining this. I was never on Twitter and that’s a fascinating bit of information I hadn’t heard before.
What a different culture over there, huh? No wonder some people find it hard to settle in here. And why some seem to be so obsessed with having tons of followers.
@obrerx@actuallyautistic@allautistics Mastodon autistic community here is more real and talking about real honest autistic experiences. Twitter has what I call autistic talking points. There’s a few key things everyone says over and over for likes and retweets and it almost always works. Everyone says the same stuff. Some big accounts I wonder if they actually relate to what they are saying or is it just their brand. I just do what I want and be myself.
@actuallyautistic@CuriousMagpie This isn’t my area of research, but I’m quite sure we’ve known about sound sensitivity/reactivity for some time. Maybe she’s just not a good reporter.
@CuriousMagpie@actuallyautistic Quite sure that auditory sensitivity (and other sensitivities) are in fact being checked if you are getting tested for ADHD and autism and are quite a common symptom of these. Maybe the reporter should have researched a bit more?
@mariyadelano@actuallyautistic I came across an article by Ludmila Praslova Ph.D. somewhere and have been a LinkedIn fangirl of hers ever since. She’s a prolific writer herself, but also shares great resources at the intersection of organizational psych and neurodivergence.
Psychiatry in the west has been built upon a long history of colonial aggression. If you are part of a minority group, chances are you will end up in a psychiatrists office at some point in your life.
Psychiatry then positions the problem in your brain, rather than the political and material circumstances of your life.
@DivergentDumpsterPhoenix@actuallyautistic@autisticadvocacy Exactly. I’m in my 50s now and have been sick for four years. I’m actively working on my screening skills to try to expose myself to fewer doctors who are unable or unwilling to be helpful.
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The 20+ year journey for me has been two-fold; discovering both my limits, and my capabilities notwithstanding disability. And you’re right, no one hands you a manual to go with your diagnosis. #isolation
Is it just me or is drinking water a wildly unpredictable sensory experience? Like I want to drink more, but there’s so much VARIANCE. Curious what y’all’s thoughts are 🚰💦
Sure, just as there is nobody who is actually "average."
At the same time, the more I poke at my cognition compared to that of others, the more I realize that there at least a sub-set of allistics who not only have different logical "givens" about how they think, but ultimately cognate in a way that is radically different from mine in a way that is almost painful to emulate.