Neurodivergent Survival Guide: How to Handle Neurotypicals - Essential Tips for Work, Social & Daily Life

This book is for a very specific person, with a very specific problem. The person intended for this information is neurodivergent from the general population. If you come away feeling that the information is irrelevant, misconstrued, or are offended by how the information is presented, then you are most likely not a member of the target audience. But if you are the target audience, then this is perhaps the single best resource for helping you get to a much less frustrating existence. At least its worth a go, to see if your main frustration in life is that as a neurodivergent you would essentially qualify as being, "informed, empathetic and cognitively aware," among people who would less qualify for a combination of those traits. You have dedicated yourself to synthesizing and integrating information across multiple fields. This is the basis to form a cohesive worldview that accounts for as many variables as possible. Finally after spending an enormous effort on this endeavor, you are flexible in applying this worldview in order to accommodate other peoples needs, including those you have not met.You think stuff like this matters, and you go around trying to catch everyone up as to why it matters. However, your existence is dominated by, laws, systems, etc... that are build for neurotypicals by definition. You as a neuroatypical are having a hard time figuring out what's wrong with you, them, the world etc... You might even think it's because you are defective, constantly asking what am I missing. Great news!, it’s actually not what you are missing, but more what you have going for you, that's not allowing your smooth transition towards normality. It’s related to cognitive assumptions, all our minds are hardwired to make, whether we are a neurotypical or not, that make understanding our worldly encounters as neurodivergents so difficult. We neurodivergants mistakenly assume other people think like us. Neurotypicals can assume this, and usually get it right, because the person next to them most often thinks like them. Take hart, they mess up understanding nuroatyipicals all the time, but its consequence free towards living their normative experience. We as neuroatypicals need a new prospective to finally figure out what's going on with them and their ever present convergence into our lives. We simply need to read this. and finally cement what we may have suspected or all along. Answers come as a window into the life experience, goals, expectations and worldview of the neurotypical. And here we get that, along with plenty of surrounding context preventing us from getting lost in spiraling cycle of vitriol towards them and ourselves all over again. It may even solve some (most) of our existential crisis and cognitive dissidences on a singularly important topic that keeps slamming us in the face.One criticism would be the overly generous depiction of neurodivergents in comparison to neurotypicals. Differences can be presented starkly instead of accounting for quite a few people who would actually be somewhere in the middle, but because they live in a neurotypical world, end up defaulting into the masses. I wish there was some coverage of these sympathetic individuals who don't quite have as significant problem with how the world of neurotypicals works, and tend to fit in. But in this context it is necessary to overcome years of frustration already experienced by anyone who reads and keeps reading, "How to handle neurotypicals: A field survival guide for the neurodivergent"