Working With and CelebratingAutistic Colleagues
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Module 5 · 30 min · 5 pages

If you report to someone autistic

~30 min total · Earn: Report With Range

Reporting to an autistic manager is its own job: and almost no professional-development material covers it. This module is for staff who report up to autistic team leads, directors, or executives. The work: meet your manager's communication norms with curiosity, not coded judgment.

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Module 5 overview diagram. Three habits when reporting to an autistic manager.

Pages in this module

  1. 5.1 Why reporting up to an autistic manager has its own playbook
  2. 5.2 Write first. Default to text and structure.
  3. 5.3 Decouple directness from disapproval
  4. 5.4 Manage up — without making it a performance
  5. 5.5 Module 5 checkpoint