This. Your ND employees generally cannot be “on” 40 hours a week 8 hours a day. We struggle with that, and often need to break up work into other shapes.
As long as we are being productive, make this explicitly ok for us.
As long as we are being productive, make this explicitly ok for us.
https://twitter.com/angelinebadams/status/1469767873941942285
Upon reflecting I think I want to clarify this a little bit, because it's a general claim that breaks down under scrutiny.
Some of your ND employees absolutely can be "on" for the full 40 hours. The younger ones, specifically.
Those not yet disabled by a lifetime of being "on".
Some of your ND employees absolutely can be "on" for the full 40 hours. The younger ones, specifically.
Those not yet disabled by a lifetime of being "on".
Autistic burnout is real, and debilitating, and disabling in its own right. And when e.g. autistic people force themselves to play by NT rules for too long without a break they will experience this, and then no longer be able to go on as they had.
I want to speak to this. I agree that 40 hours a week is probably not great for anyone.
But autistic people, we understand things differently. When we are told to be on for 40 hours we assume people mean that.
They don’t, and all the NTs knew all along.
But autistic people, we understand things differently. When we are told to be on for 40 hours we assume people mean that.
They don’t, and all the NTs knew all along.
https://twitter.com/jprzetakiewicz/status/1469823464718704640
There was a thread a while back about this, where basically we all talked about how WHAT THE FUCK we felt when we learned that most people are only productive for 2.5 out of 8 hours per work day.
Because nobody told us that.
Because nobody told us that.
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