Tackle it Tuesday: In-Person Meetings

Welcome to Tackle It Tuesday, a social media series where an autistic employee at AAoM (yours truly) writes workplace tips to better cope with the stresses of a working world not built for neurodiversity.

While creating the latest entry for AAoM’s social platforms, I realized that social media alone isn’t the ideal archive for all the past Tackle It Tuesday entries, as it shares space with all the other important work AAoM does. So, this blog companion was born!


This Tackle it Tuesday is on In-Person Meetings!

An image with a green and blue background. There is a pictogram of three people sitting around a square table.

The text above the image reads "For many autistic people, work meetings are difficult things to tackle. 

In-Person work meetings follow a lot of the same rules as other interactions, but there’s some extra things to watch for."

An image with a green and blue background. There is a pictogram of one person sitting at a table with two people on the other side. There are arrows pointing to both the general direction of the two people and to the laptop.

The text to the side reads: "This time, you have to look people in the eye, but there are a few ways to make that easier!

Look in the general direction of multiple people
Look at your notebook or laptop"

An image with a green and blue background. There is a pictogram of two fidget toys under a table.

The text above reads: "Fidgets also work great! Soundless ones are ideal, and you can either use them openly or hide them under the table for more conservative employers."

An image with a green and blue background. There is a pictogram of a person with a speech bubble over them. The speech bubble has a question mark inside of it. To the right of the person, there is a piece of paper with writing on it.

The text reads: "Most meetings have an agenda.
If you have time anxiety, tracking your meetings with it can help!
If you’re confused about where you are in the meeting you can say 
“where were we?” and get the answer."

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