Post #1507676

2026-03-31 17:10 UTC

I recently learned that I struggle immensely with forced changes of priority at work and having to shift through many different types of tasks in a single day. Much more so than nuerotypical folks. It's probably a *major* cause of the burnout that put me on short term disability leave for the last 3 months. This way of thinking isn't something I feel is wrong in my brain at all, but rather something that can be managed by changing how I do my work and how my manager assigns it to me, but managing will depend on this little part of my society deciding to work with me on it. If my manager refuses to change how he manages me, the problem will largely remain. 3/?

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@chronohart@tech.lgbt 2026-03-31 17:11

Frith also keeps talking about how "unscientific" our understanding of autism is because so much of it is based purely on *observations*. What the actual fuck??? *Science is observation*!!! That is precisely how you do science! You see how things work, notice a pattern, form a hypothesis, then observe more intentionally to see whether the hypothesis proves true *through observation*. This whole article absolutely *reeks* of "society is broken, and breaking people every day, but capitalism doesn't want us to make things better for them, so here are all our excuses for why it's actually *wrong* for us to care about taking simple steps to improve society for a vast array of non-rich people". 4/?

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@KatyElphinstone@mas.to 2026-04-03 07:27

@chronohart I'm sending this to those I thought might be interested, you among them, I hope that's alright! I've just been guest on the podcast that hosted Uta Frith. Here's my podcast episode: On substack (but I think anyone can listen to it): https://neurosense.substack.com/p/why-we-need-to-reframe-autism-with On Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lets-talk-neurosense-the-psychology-of-neurodiversity/id1883007944 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/19fSshl0XkXqiKPCp3uyzO?si=gDBCV9koQHKqvEMHqrZJnw&t=2249 Pass it on if you like it. Comments can be made on the Substack version, & very welcome! ☺️

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