Podcast Recap: Autism and Overwhelm at Work with Danielle Sullivan

This article was written by Crystal Farmer, based on a podcast by Danielle Sullivan. You can learn more about Crystal and the Neurodiverging team here: https://www.neurodiverging.com/about-neurodiverging/

Welcome back to Podcast Recaps, where we summarize some of Neurodiverging’s most popular episodes. In this episode, Danielle talks about her journey through the work world and how she decided that staying in her room for months works great for her! Here are the highlights:

Danielle: So I get a lot of emails and Instagram comments and things saying, “You do so much! You do all these webinars, you’re parenting, you do this podcast, like, how can you do it all? Don’t you get overwhelmed? How can you be autistic and still manage all this stuff?”

I think that a lot of people drastically overestimate how much I can get done, but also how much it’s “normal” to get done in a day or a week or a month. I want to talk more about why even “high functioning” autistics like me, why even folks who are low support needs still have trouble working in the traditional sense of what work means. Because I think there’s a lot of misunderstandings about how autism can affect how we work, the ways we work, the places that we’re working well and just not good, the skills we have and the skills that we…