LibraryScenariosWhen career advancement challenges your autistic social processing
Scenario

When career advancement challenges your autistic social processing

I got promoted at work but now I have to manage people and my autism makes reading social cues impossible and I'm terrified I'm going to fail and prove everyone right about my limitations.

Rabia
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success that requires skills antithetical to one's neurological wiring creates an internal conflict between achievement and authenticity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging for neurodivergent people?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.