Poppy Locks 💘

As an autistic person when I first learned about the concept of networking I thought it was highly manipulative and lacking any integrity because what do you mean I’m expected to know people in order to get a job instead of relying on my experience and work ethic?

To the “everyone is Autistic or ADHD now” crowd: When the whole world stopped in 2020, and everyone was mandated to stay in their homes, every burnt out, high-masking autistic person got to finally drop the lifelong masks and just be themselves for months. And when social distancing policies started dropping and we got back to “normal,” it was impossible for those people to simply pick those lifelong masks back up as we dropped them, shattered them. Just sit with that.