10 things your autistic teammate wants you to know

Norm Julian
4 min readMar 24, 2024

If you need to get around the paywall, you can read this story here.

I’m a software engineer, so these points might be a bit specific to tech. Of course, they may also be biased toward my particular flavor of autism.

Nonetheless, if you find yourself working with someone like me, here are 10 things to know.

The idea of a “quick call” stresses me out

An unplanned Zoom link puts me in fight-or-flight.

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Norm Julian

Programmer by trade, Texpat, lover of multicolored things and sunflower seed butter