Fesshole 🧻My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award
Jon Moore
StarkRG@jonm Very broadly (so not examples at all), communicate conscientiously and unambiguously (try to use words that don't have double meanings unless you're trying to be playful), realise that misunderstandings will _still_ happen and plan accordingly (if it's important, double check before they spend a whole day doing the wrong thing). Keep criticisms to a minimum and general while piling on praise for specific accomplishments (not just participation-trophy praise).
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@jonm Most of all, give people the time to complete their tasks in the way that best works for them. Deadlines are an unfortunate fact of life, but don't create unnecessary deadlines that just stress people out, and try to plan for both people to be slower and more meticulous and for unforseen delays. You don't need to go all Scotty and quadruple any time estimate, but at least increase it by half if not doubling it.
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Fritz leck Eier 🎗️@StarkRG @jonm I'm autistic. I was told, I were above average good at understanding jural and legal texts. no, I'm just sub average good at understanding ambiguous bullshit, which makes it look like I were outstandingly good at understanding law in comparison. If one wants to not be misunderstood, like people who make laws, it helps to not use ambiguous speech.
it's a nobrainer really. but still I'm the one with "special needs". 🤷
lizzzzard
thefathippy"I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned." 🤔
"The category isn't German or autistic — it's people for whom the gap between how things are and how they ought to be is not an abstraction but a constant, low-grade irritation."
Haha—a mate & I were recently moaning that nothing works as it should, & how constantly irritating that was.
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