[stndef]

Speaking as someone who is autistic and has significant hearing loss, open offices are a form of torture. It might sound like hyperbole, but I promise it's not!

I enjoy working in a team, but in more enclosed spaces. In my current job I share a room with two other people and it's just right (apart from when all of us are in remote meetings at the same time, but you win some and you lose some).

[tomcam]

Speaking as someone who’s not autistic and who has sensitive hearing, I concur

[tomcam]

P.S. my wife & kid just characterized me as autistic and I don’t know what to do with that

[hrnnnnnn]

I recommend thinking back through difficult events from your past which were hard to understand at the time to see if autism could help explain them.

[tomcam]

They're doing it for me :O

[tomcam]

It was a lot