Just facilitated @DomainTools Neurodivergent Employee Resource Group meeting, which we've been doing now for over a year!
Really interesting dynamic today, and in addition to checking in, we talked about caffeine & stimulation, and then folks spent a while talking about raising ND kids.
Why is it important to welcome and nurture neurodiversity in cybersecurity?
I'll leave it to those touchy-feely goofs over at RAND, whose study on neurodiversity and national security found many benefits, but beyond those a necessity due to:
“missions that are too important and too difficult to be left to those who use their brains only in typical ways.”
please help wren with their utility bills before they get shut off! you can also support them getting cleaning supplies with the amazon wishlist. anything helps!
I have just watched the 1st episode of A Kind of Spark thanks to @PetitPas
It’s a Irish British American Canadian series. In Canada I’m watching it on CBC Gem, in the UK it seems to be on the CBBC channel, for the others countries I don’t know.
I like it because the 3 autistic sisters are played by autistic actors, use of the words autistic, masking, meltdown. etc. Shows sensory overload, etc., ignorance and bias.
Norwegian employers always write about diversity in hiring in their job listings, but I'm not seeing the right kind of flexibility there.
I have the #neurodivergent kind of diversity, which has affected my ability to complete an education and hold a steady job. Most other types of diversity are physical attributes that you can see, such as gender, ethnicity and disability. They don't really affect work performance much. It's only reasonable to not discriminate on superficial stuff.
Habt ihr als Kinder auch hin und wieder mal Situationen erlebt, in denen ihr plötzlich den Eindruck hattet, dass ihr euch von außen selbst zuseht bei dem was ihr grade macht? @adhsass#autismus#adhs
@DukeOfHazzard@adhsass In der Therapie nannten wir es Dissoziation, weil ich es oft/v. a. dann erlebte, wenn mich eine Situation überforderte. Ich müsste da mal ein wenig in der #neurodivergent-Bubble forschen.
Vieles wird aus meiner neuen Perspektive irgendwie anders interpretierbar. Z. B. sogenannte „Zwangsstörungen“ sind u. U. Autismusspektrum-Verhaltensweisen. „Soziale Ängste“ u. U. ebenfalls.
Is it something with the weather? Is it the pollen? I'm having a mare of a week for concentration. I can't focus on anything, flitting from one thing to another, forgetting things I should be doing. Coffee is not helping like it usually does. It doesn't help that I can't sit for a long time without stiffening up (still post op hip rep, but getting there). Also, the maddening tongue on tooth rubbing stim is back. Open to suggestions @actuallyadhd#ActuallyADHD#ADHD#neurodivergent
It's super common with Notion newbies to make a really complex system, maybe using several different templates, that seems great because it includes literally everything.
Trust me when I tell you, you don't actually need everything!
Start small and simple - it can be as simple as a blank page with a check list on it!
What some people don’t seem to be able to understand is that for the ones with executive disfunction number of steps matters a lot.
I just put away all my dried laundry aside of duvet cover.
Why? Because for all the other things it’s easy one-step task: grab all the knickers and shove them into the drawer, get the home clothes and put it into home clothes cube box(that cubed Ikea shelf is such a helper for people like me, I just have a cube for every thing).
But the linen shelf is at the top of the bathroom closet, and it’s almost full. So I need a stepladder to be able to put the duvet cover there(I can try to shove it there without, I kinda reach the shelf itself, but in its current state the cover is likely to fall from there, and probably with some other things, so that would upset me which I am not ready to deal with now).
But the stepladder is now occupied by my winter shoes which were drying there before I put them away for summer.
But to put them away I need to get two big boxes from under my bed, empty one by putting everything that is there into the other one, put all the shoes there, put the boxes back under the bad, ensure all the boxes there are arranged in a way that is allowing my cat to play in that labyrinth, and probably clean up after that as I suppose there’s going to be a few dust bunnies.
Gosh, I got tired by just typing all that.
Going through all those steps may bot take too much time(if I don’t get distracted by something, including the urge to sort everything perfectly), but the very thought of going through all those steps just discourages me so much that I can’t find energy to start. “It’s just one duvet cover!” - they say. “It’s a shitton of steps!” - I answer.
Well, the cover is drying in a way that obscures a view from my bed which irritates me enough to maybe develop enough anger to put it away in the weekend.
please help wren with their utility bills before they get shut off! you can also support them getting cleaning supplies with the amazon wishlist. anything helps!