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In my experience/opinion it also has to do with the artificially inflated complexity of many things in corporate world. Which leads to more people being required (which is the point of course), which leads to more communication (which does not work in favor of autistic people generally).

So now you have a three individual contributors, a line manager, a human resource people lead or whatever it's called this year and many many meetings.

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In my experience, autistic adults - if employed in their area they care about - will also care about things like ‘does it work’, ‘is it good’, ‘is it doing the right thing’.

That will get you targeted in the current corp environment pretty bad.

They also tend to compulsively tell the truth - also a bad idea in the current corp environment.

And if doing something outside of their interest, burnout is hard to avoid. Especially when you have bosses screaming at you to go go go - to do stuff that just doesn’t work.

Absolutely this.

Yeah I'm thankful I have a direct manager who I can use as a "filter" for my bluntness.

True, it's a nightmare in my corporate job. Most of my work is jumping through hoops other teams have put up, in most cases not really for function but just for political purposes (it makes them important and needed).

When I see this it's pretty clear how big companies like meta can dump billion after billion into something and have nothing to show for it. Most of the work is just artificial, satisfying other teams' unnecessary requirements.

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