Working With and CelebratingAutistic Colleagues
Course overview › Module 4 · If you are a peer of someone autistic
Module 4 · 30 min · 5 pages

If you are a peer of someone autistic

~30 min total · Earn: Peer in Practice

Peers shape day-to-day belonging more than managers do. This module is for the colleague at the next desk, the co-lead on the project, the working-group teammate. The Double Empathy Problem is at its sharpest at the peer level, and the repair work is mutual.

Authenticityshow up as you areTrustdo what you said you'd doPower & differencename it, don't avoid itShared purposethe work we're here to doFour conditions for peer trust on a neurodiverse team
Module 4 overview diagram. Four conditions for peer trust on a neurodiverse team.

Pages in this module

  1. 4.1 Why peers (not just managers) shape belonging
  2. 4.2 Writing peer norms — the Module 4 worksheet, used well
  3. 4.3 Friction repair: when things go sideways
  4. 4.4 Being the kind of peer autistic colleagues stay for
  5. 4.5 Module 4 checkpoint