Collaboration or Social Positioning?

I have not met a single Autistic person in a corporate environment who hasn’t had at least some, and usually an excessive amount of, feedback on their ‘collaboration’.

And yet, it’s often not actually collaboration that is the issue. If you’re familiar with the double empathy problem, or indeed the many workplace studies on the productivity of Autistic teams, you’ll know that Autistic people have been shown to communicate and work very efficiently in situations where they’re only working with other Autistic people.

The issues arise when Autistic people are interacting with those of other neurotypes - often because non-Autistic people have a more social hierarchy based understanding of collaboration.