[Bri_Cnqr]

Hi everyone. I'm a counselor and I was wondering what sorts of successful strategies people have employed in helping individuals on the spectrum acknowledge authority hierarchy to help prevent them from suffering personal & professional consequences when they don't properly acknowledge those boundaries.

[cats!]

Not sure I have a very good answer, but I find rules and workplace norms are easy to understand when they're clearly laid out (maybe written or presented as a visual).

However, we autistic folks tend be pretty anti-authoritative in general... and those types of workplace politics are inherently problematic, exclusionary, and ableist. Perhaps your clients would do better with some self-advocacy tools?

[PsychoPhil]

Good question, I've run into this problem before.

[eskielover]

It was a struggle my ex-H had. We were both computer design engineers. Obviously he didn't have the skills for a management position. When he maxed out in his technical promotions he BLAMED company politics on his problems & definitely took no responsibility for it himself. Problem was I wasn't the nieve wife because I worked in the same industry & even same company so I KNEW what was really going on. Didn't realize he was on the spectrum at the time but it made sense when I realized that & a lot of other authority issues he had made sense too. That was actually years before Asperger's was even diagnosed in the US. I definitely saw the problem in both my ex -H & in my own Dad. It would be nice to have a strategy to help. It is obvious from my experience that confronting with the reality didn't work which not knowing what I was dealung with was my strategy which only created a fighting environment not conducive to either person.