Thread by @SteveMcfirerisk

#Autism hitting the headlines & trending - good

I was diagnosed as Aspergers last year - I’m still just me

Yesterday I had a overwhelming day

Last week I had an overwhelming week

Last month I had an overwhelming month

Last year I had an overwhelming year

This sums us up 💚

https://twitter.com/KatyElphinstone/status/1619735070830632962

Last decade was overwhelming at times but thankfully not all the time, just some of the time but then a breakthrough comes, it’s always does.

I work on complexity and at times challenging assignments.

Problems so big: no-one fully understands the issues, never mind devise solutions.

Problems often rattle around for days, weeks, months, years, or decades & in one case a century.

Like I said big complex problems.

The good ones (clients, managers & assignments) are where I get time and space to map the issues & have that breakthrough

A sector or guidance or policy or legislative breakthrough which improves public safety for all or simply a small breakthrough to a problem, and the next…..

Today could be a great day, or tomorrow or next week, or next month, or next year, or next decade, it always comes, it always does.

This Maori word sums it all up for #autistics

“Takiwatanga - in their own time and space.”

Often asked

“why do I speak so openly about #dyslexia, #Aspergers, #depression”

it’s simple: to make it easier for the next kid or adult, and the next, and the next, and the next……

See a problem & breakthrough

For me it’s was understanding of #dyslexia: focusing on the strengths & minimising the weaknesses

Then #depression which I call my deep thinking time - see a positive from a negative.

Now #aspergers which is a work in progress but I’m still me 💙

Go on give us a fighting chance to be #neuroexceptional - in our own time and space

Maybe, just maybe we will have that breakthrough to a complex or big problem 💙

Thanks to @KatyElphinstone for the post which helped today’s breakthrough when I was just about ready to quit.

Also to @e_brooks for posting the origins of #Takiwatanga

https://twitter.com/e_brooks/status/1620033760887730176?s=46&t=dpz53hPgTlrul6e6BY74Pw

https://twitter.com/katyelphinstone/status/1619735070830632962