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 ...
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