"Please stop telling me to leave my comfort zone" - eviltoast

I came across this article from 2018 and it really spoke to me as a late-diagnosed autistic only just learning what “comfortable” feels like.

  • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    You lost me at collaborative spirit. I‘m not into big words to be honest but otherwise you nailed it imo.

    I‘d say: do it alone as long as you can and then get people to work for you, not with you. They have clear areas of expertise and definitive borders. Make it a sport to find new responsibilities for them and be incredibly fair but don’t let anyone else take the wheel, trust me.

    I think those of us (autists) who are able to work at that level are rather gifted and we still struggle with social clues. Even if you have what it takes to run a company, you probably wont see it coming if someone betrays you.

    We are the perfect victim to exploitation. I have been exploited a lot in my life (i do have a history of abuse as a child as well). Most people don’t even know that much about themselves.

    But I digress. Let me know if you have any more questions.