#i wouldn't say theres less friction than when I worked more typical jobs

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My entire team at work is neurodivergent.

Not a single person here is neurotypical (ok maybe like one guy is unconfirmed, but I have my doubts,) and while it certainly isn't the utopia I always envisioned, it is very entertaining.

Like at no other workplaces have I ever been asked if I was ok while I was doing desk work. But here, everyone understands desk work = your soul slowly leaving your body = psychological torture of the highest degree. One person even brought me a coffee with extra sugar out of solidarity.

There are no less than 4 simultaneous conversations happening at once at any given time. Any less and I'm pretty sure we'd start clawing at the walls.

Speaking of which, this morning (halfway through our morning meeting) my coworker started tearing apart the ceiling because the AC was dripping. He was leading the meeting. No one batted an eye and the meeting just kept going as if he wasn't literally dismantling the room around us. We even handed him tools when he silently held out his hand.

Between us we are basically a fully stocked pharmacy of all the most highly restricted medications. I'm pretty sure some people are trading meds like kids trading sandwiches at lunch.

Sometimes an unstoppable force (a coworker with understimulated hyperactive ADHD) meets an immovable object (an overstimulated autistic coworker with rigid routines) and either the universe' mysteries are solved or (way more likely) nuclear war breaks out. -> my AuDHD ass watching from the corner like a child of divorce 🧍‍♂️

Most of the people here have been fired at least once in past jobs. Several of them were fired by the people they now work with.

Documentation and organization is a choose your own adventure kind of situation. This means the finished documents we DO have are absolutely immaculate and belong in the Louvre. The other 99.9% of the information is stored in people's heads or scribbled on scrap paper and left around or word docs with like one sentence in them. I am of the latter variety unless I'm forced to be the only adult in the room.

There is not a single surface in our workspace that doesn't have a fidget toy on it. We keep breaking chairs because everyone spins on them.

No one has ever looked at me weird when I announce I'm all out of facial expressions for the day.

"Did you forget to take your meds" is a socially acceptable thing to ask and honestly shows you care enough to notice.

When something goes catastrophically wrong the entire room erupts into inappropriate laughter.

The amount of coffee consumed by our team alone is probably more than all the other teams combined. Daily.

There is no such thing as a Standard Operating Procedure here. Everyone has their own way of doing things. Yes it's chaos and causes a lot of fights but it's better than the alternative (one person happy and everyone else miserable.)