Too bad my family and employer don’t see it that way.

Some wise, tortured soul once put this more succinctly than I ever could have. Yes, it’s in the context of mental illness but it applies just as well to all sorts of neurodivergent conditions.

The worst part of having a mental illness is that people expect you to behave as if you don’t.

That’s when you think of Homer Simpson. “Lisa, if you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.”