The Right Room
A field guide to changing the room, not the person. Practical, research-grounded, and written from a neurodivergent mind. Join the list to be first to know when it launches, and see the full table of contents below.
The full table of contents
There’s no wrong way to read it. Pick it up and go chapter by chapter, or find the one thing that speaks to what you’re facing right now and start there. Read three chapters, set it down, and come back when you need it. However you get to the help you need is the right way.
Part 1 · Foundation
- The Recess Room
- It All Started With Pizza
- The Standard Brain Doesn’t Exist
- The Coffee Pot Is Empty
- Change the Culture, Change the Room
- The Boxes
Part 2 · The Friction Points
- Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Processing
- Monotropism vs. Polytropism
- Sustained Attention
- Task Initiation
- Remote Work
- Masking
- Double Empathy
- Working Memory
- Last-Minute Changes
- Emotional Regulation
- Stimming and Fidgeting
- Feedback
- A Strong Sense of Justice
Part 3 · All Sides of the Room
- The Neurodivergent Reader
- The Neurotypical Reader
- Manager Capacity
- The Kind, Compassionate Manager
Part 4 · Occupational Burnout
- What Is Occupational Burnout
- How to Get Out of Burnout
- Changing the System of Burnout
Part 5 · Closing
- Conflicting Needs
- Accommodations vs. Adjustments
- The New Operating System
You change the room, not the person
Most workplace advice tries to fix the neurodivergent person. The Right Room does the opposite. It names the everyday friction where an autistic or ADHD mind and a workplace built for everyone else grind against each other, and it shows managers and teams how to change the environment so more kinds of minds can do their best work.
Grounded in organizational psychology, written from lived experience, and built for the people actually doing the work.
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