Autistic Devs

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A community for devs on the Autistic spectrum.

This is primarily a "safe space" from other communities on programming.dev that would rather tell us to "man up", than provide any reasonable social advice.

Posts that belong in this community include:

Venting
Seeking Advice
Personal Experiences / Stories

We are open to allistic/NT folx providing feedback! However, it MUST be done with the knowledge and understanding that we are autistic and require a lot more assistance in the domain of social understanding.

Posts/Comments that AREN'T allowed:

Posts that spread toxic masculinity - "man up", "be a man", etc.
Posts that attack allistic folx or those with different neurodivegence.
Posts that don't relate to an Autistic person's experience in software development, I.T., Infrastructure, or other tech focused roles.

If you are penning a response that includes a technical solution STOP!

Double check that the post asked for a technical solution - it likely doesn't. We recommend that technical questions go to their respective communities.

founded 4 months ago

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Soliciting Art for this Community (self.autistic_devs)

submitted 4 months ago by th3raid0r to c/autistic_devs

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As in description, we need art!

I'm awful at art and don't want to use DALLE/Midjourney if I can avoid it.

So yeah, if anyone has a good banner image or icon image in mind, DM me!

Struggling to get interviews (self.autistic_devs)

submitted 4 months ago by SatouKazuma to c/autistic_devs

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Does anyone have tips for getting interviews? I'd like to think I do well enough when I get them since I'm 3-for-3 on offers, but I can't seem to get them. I'm working on shifting out of a big 4 consultancy back to industry either in the civilian space sector or in game dev. But it's hard to puff up my résumé because I'm not much into playing the whole bs game, and autism does me no favours in networking. Suggestions?

Icebreaker Discussion - Dealing with ableism - What works and what doesn't? (self.autistic_devs)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by th3raid0r to c/autistic_devs

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Let's discuss able-ism in our industry.

For me, I mostly experience it whenever marketing has a "genius" idea that everyone should be little mini-marketers on social media. Essentially, they wanted us to make a lot more noise on social media and do cold outreach in our network. I was in no mood to exploit what little friends I have on social media. Not to mention the fact that I'm really no good at this stuff, and it's likely to backfire.

I put my foot down on that one - called the initiative ableist right in their "party" channel. And stated that if my participation was an issue, then I'd like to request non-participation as a reasonable accomodation for my autism.

Not sure that was good for my career though. Despite getting many DM's expressing thanks for standing up. I'm pretty sure higher ups will just think I'm "not a team player".

So did it work? Yes, but also there may be other consequences to my direct nature that I haven't seen yet.