{ "item_title" : "Autism at Work Toolkit", "item_author" : [" Farah Hales "], "item_description" : "You can be good at your job and still find work exhausting.Maybe you can handle the actual tasks, but the open office, fluorescent lights, meetings, constant messages, vague instructions, social expectations, and pressure to appear professional use up your capacity long before the workday ends. Maybe you spend hours monitoring your face, tone, eye contact, and reactions, then finish the workday with almost nothing left for the rest of your life.You may also be trying to navigate questions that ordinary workplace advice rarely answers clearly: How much should you disclose? How do you ask for an adjustment without sharing more than you want to? How do you say no when your workload keeps expanding? How do you tell the difference between an awkward workplace mismatch and a pattern that may require documentation, stronger boundaries, or an exit plan?Autism at Work Toolkit was written for that part.Written by an autistic adult for autistic adults, this practical, neurodiversity-affirming toolkit brings together workplace strategies for sensory demands, professional masking, meetings, communication, executive function, disclosure, accommodations, boundaries, feedback, burnout, and lower-capacity days.It does not teach you how to perform professionally. The tools and scripts are starting points: use what helps, adapt what almost helps, and leave what does not fit your role, workplace, safety or circumstances.Inside, you will learn how to: identify professional masking, recognize the after-work crash, and map where your workday is costing you the most capacityaudit sensory demands in office, hybrid, remote, and other work environments and identify practical changes that may reduce unnecessary strainnavigate unwritten workplace expectations, small talk, office politics, hierarchy, and communication differences without assuming every social rule must be followedmake meetings, digital communication, interruptions, and task switching more manageable while protecting periods of deep focusrequest practical workplace adjustments and understand the difference between an informal change and a formal disability accommodationmake more deliberate decisions about autism and disability disclosure while considering privacy, stigma, support, and workplace safetyset workload boundaries, respond to scope creep, and use ready-made scripts when finding the right words under pressure is difficultprocess feedback, repair misunderstandings, and distinguish workable friction from green, amber, and red workplace patternsexplore job crafting, plan for lower-capacity workdays, and prepare communication and exit options for periods of severe overloadbring your most useful strategies together into a personal Workplace Operating System you can revisit as your role, capacity, and circumstances changeYou do not have to use this book from beginning to end. Go directly to the chapter that matches the problem in front of you, try one tool or script, and return when another section becomes relevant.You also do not have to disclose more than you want to, unmask everywhere, tolerate every workplace demand, or force yourself into one definition of a successful autistic employee. A strategy that is useful in one role, industry, or workplace may need to be adapted or left behind in another.The goal is not to make you better at tolerating work that does not fit you. It is to help you understand what your work actually asks of you, reduce unnecessary friction, communicate more clearly, protect your capacity, and build a professional life that is more sustainable for you. ", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/824/137/9798241373458_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "21.99", "online_price" : "21.99", "our_price" : "21.99", "club_price" : "21.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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