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OPTIMIZINGYOURSELF:
NEURODIVERSITY INTECH
Elizabeth Schneider
@mozts
InfoQ.com: News & Community Site
• Over 1,000,000 software developers, architects and CTOs read the site world-
wide every month
• 250,000 senior developers subscribe to our weekly newsletter
• Published in 4 languages (English, Chinese, Japanese and Brazilian
Portuguese)
• Post content from our QCon conferences
• 2 dedicated podcast channels: The InfoQ Podcast, with a focus on
Architecture and The Engineering Culture Podcast, with a focus on building
• 96 deep dives on innovative topics packed as downloadable emags and
minibooks
• Over 40 new content items per week
Watch the video with slide
synchronization on InfoQ.com!
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/
neurodiversity-tech/
Purpose of QCon
- to empower software development by facilitating the spread of
knowledge and innovation
Strategy
- practitioner-driven conference designed for YOU: influencers of
change and innovation in your teams
- speakers and topics driving the evolution and innovation
- connecting and catalyzing the influencers and innovators
Highlights
- attended by more than 12,000 delegates since 2007
- held in 9 cities worldwide
Presented at QCon San Francisco
www.qconsf.com
• This is my opinions and based on my experience.
DISCLAMER
page 2
WhatisNeurodiversity?
Neurodiversity is a concept where neurological differences are to be recognized and
respected as any other human variation.
page 3
page 4
AutismisnotsomethingIhave,it’ssomethingIam.
Autism
difficulties with social interaction and communication,
and by restricted and repetitive behavior.
Alexithymia
Inability to identify and describe emotions experienced
by one's self or others.
page 5
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-with-autism-can-read-emotions-feel-empathy1/
Social Communication Disorder
difficulties with the use of verbal and nonverbal language for social purposes. Primary difficulties are in social
interaction, social cognition, and pragmatics.
page 6
Whatisyoursuperpower?
Whatisyour fortressofsolitude?
Whatisyourkryptonite?
COMMUNICATION
page 7
the successful conveying or sharing of ideas
and feelings.
page 8
CommunicationStyles
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/inside-atlassian/how-to-navigate-diverse-communication-styles-at-work
page 9
https://www.monkeyuser.com/2018/focus/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216362
• PerspectiveTaking or putting yourself in someone
else’s shoes.
• Staying out of judgement and listening.
• Recognizing emotion in another person that you have
maybe felt before.
• Communicating that you can recognize that emotion.
page 10
EmpathyvsSympathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXSjc-pbXk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
• Make a point to ask others
• Feedback vs Advice
• Take all input as their point of view
• Leave what is not helping you
• Take the time to reflect
page 11
Feedback
https://hbr.org/2019/09/why-asking-for-advice-is-more-effective-than-asking-for-feedback
a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite
evident success.
page 12
Impostersyndrome
https://xkcd.com/1954/
• Autism @ Work Employer Roundtable
• Microsoft Autism Hiring Program
page 13
SupportintheIndustry
https://disabilityin.org/what-we-do/committees/autism-at-work-roundtable/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/cross-disability/hiring.aspx#coreui-heading-sp7tqqo
THANK
YOU
Watch the video with slide
synchronization on InfoQ.com!
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/
neurodiversity-tech/

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Optimizing Yourself: Neurodiversity in Tech

  • 2. InfoQ.com: News & Community Site • Over 1,000,000 software developers, architects and CTOs read the site world- wide every month • 250,000 senior developers subscribe to our weekly newsletter • Published in 4 languages (English, Chinese, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese) • Post content from our QCon conferences • 2 dedicated podcast channels: The InfoQ Podcast, with a focus on Architecture and The Engineering Culture Podcast, with a focus on building • 96 deep dives on innovative topics packed as downloadable emags and minibooks • Over 40 new content items per week Watch the video with slide synchronization on InfoQ.com! https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ neurodiversity-tech/
  • 3. Purpose of QCon - to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation Strategy - practitioner-driven conference designed for YOU: influencers of change and innovation in your teams - speakers and topics driving the evolution and innovation - connecting and catalyzing the influencers and innovators Highlights - attended by more than 12,000 delegates since 2007 - held in 9 cities worldwide Presented at QCon San Francisco www.qconsf.com
  • 4. • This is my opinions and based on my experience. DISCLAMER page 2
  • 5. WhatisNeurodiversity? Neurodiversity is a concept where neurological differences are to be recognized and respected as any other human variation. page 3
  • 7. Autism difficulties with social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. Alexithymia Inability to identify and describe emotions experienced by one's self or others. page 5 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-with-autism-can-read-emotions-feel-empathy1/ Social Communication Disorder difficulties with the use of verbal and nonverbal language for social purposes. Primary difficulties are in social interaction, social cognition, and pragmatics.
  • 9. COMMUNICATION page 7 the successful conveying or sharing of ideas and feelings.
  • 12. • PerspectiveTaking or putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. • Staying out of judgement and listening. • Recognizing emotion in another person that you have maybe felt before. • Communicating that you can recognize that emotion. page 10 EmpathyvsSympathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXSjc-pbXk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
  • 13. • Make a point to ask others • Feedback vs Advice • Take all input as their point of view • Leave what is not helping you • Take the time to reflect page 11 Feedback https://hbr.org/2019/09/why-asking-for-advice-is-more-effective-than-asking-for-feedback
  • 14. a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. page 12 Impostersyndrome https://xkcd.com/1954/
  • 15. • Autism @ Work Employer Roundtable • Microsoft Autism Hiring Program page 13 SupportintheIndustry https://disabilityin.org/what-we-do/committees/autism-at-work-roundtable/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/cross-disability/hiring.aspx#coreui-heading-sp7tqqo
  • 17. Watch the video with slide synchronization on InfoQ.com! https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ neurodiversity-tech/