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Stop blaming yourself for a system designed to use you up. You have been passed over, managed out, quietly sidelined, and handed feedback that functionally means “we’d prefer a different species.”   Through all of it, you kept recalibrating, kept asking what was wrong with you. Nothing is wrong with you. The economics are wrong. The system was not built with your brain in mind, and it has been profiting from that gap ever since. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Table of Contents 1. The System Cheats 2. Masking Costs 3. Paper Lies 4. You Always Stay 5. Build Your Own The System Cheats Your manager took credit for your work, rated you poorly for producing it, and got promoted. You blamed yourself. That’s the trap. Corporate environments reward social fluency above output. A 2021 study in Autism in Adulthood found autistic employees outperformed neurotypical peers on objective task measures while ...

There is a particular flavour of work story that autistic and ADHD people tell each other. It goes like this: You joined a company. You were brilliant. You fixed things. You improved systems nobody asked you to improve because you couldn’t stand watching them be broken. You stayed late. You said what nobody else would say in the meeting. You delivered. And then someone else got promoted. Or your ideas got rebranded as theirs. Or you burned out so badly you had to start over completely. Again. If this is your story, I want you to understand something important: You were not unlucky. You were targeted. Not consciously, in most cases. But targeted all the same. The office culture corporate machine is not designed to reward the most competent person. It rewards the person who navigates the unwritten social game with the least friction. And for us, that game was built without our brain in mind. That’s not an excuse. That’s the terrain. Know it or keep losing to it. The Good Dog Problem Here...

Wipe your ass with your therapy homework. The so called “experts” want to “help you” to act in a way thats convenient for others, not drive you to succeed. A person who works forty hours a week and thinks about nothing. Survival mode. They call your intensity a disorder because they are unable to interface with it. Fuck em. Your mind is a laser while most people carry flickering flashlights. You possess a weapon. Your ability to deep focus is the gun in your holster navigating the Vibe Economy inhabited by the mediocre masses of fried attention spans and shoddy work. You are a specialist in a world of generalists. This is your guide to total mental dominance. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. THE PATRONIZING POMODORO 2. THE SOCIAL BATTERY SCAM 3. THE PERSISTENCE OF THE WILL 4. SENSORY DOMINANCE 5. THE PATTERN SEEKER 6. THE RITUAL OF RECOVERY 7. THE POWER OF NO THE PATRONIZING POMODORO The pathetic Pomodoro timer is a death sentence for your genius. Neurotypical experts love 25 minute blocks because...

The word yearn annoys me. It phonetically sounds like pussy shit. I managed to dodge learning about yearning because I don’t come across it very often in my dealings with real ones. The literary app leaks it to me. Lo and behold. It is pussy shit. Yearning is valuing what you desperately want instead of what you immediately control , which reduces what you control, making it less likely to get what you want. This Newsletter is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It’s a strong feeling of deep desire or longing, often for something that is terminally over and is never going to happen. It often reflects a magical wish for something that one simply cannot have without a work ethic they don’t possess, time they don’t possess, or it comes with dire consequences for themselves and others. The biggest yearn is the thing or person who got away. Some yearn for the toxic ex while raising a family. Some yearn for the big break ...