I don’t exist in your
reframing
or in your mindset
or achievements,
in your
motivational drivers
or your ideas of resilience,
in your affiliations and security,
in your slick presentations
and easy people pleasing categories.
I don’t exist
in your self congratulatory lists of tick boxes
or
brain tips
or
problem solving
or your meet the challenge directives.
I don’t exist
in your psychometric evaluations
or in your how to influence in corridors
or your markers for status.
I don’t exist in your pity or your
negative thinking cycles or self awareness.
Notwithstanding
I do exist
#autistic #resilience
Communication processes in the workplace assume neurotypicality — standard advice to employees is often just not suitable for us.
The uncertainty of a restructure is difficult for all, but for autistic people, (many of us live with chronic anxiety) any additional stress can quickly lead to becoming overloaded, exposing us to the possibility of ‘meltdown’ or ‘shutdown’. All of which is detrimental both to mental health and productivity.
Information about organisational change and material given to support employees left me in overload and unable to communicate — terrified of being judged and failing to come up to expectations. Tuning into poetic thought processes eventually enabled a way through this, and to communicate.
