leave salting to the typicals

The comrades who keep the spreadsheets clean are invaluable. Not all of organizing is talking to people.

I’m unable to do a goddamn thing.

The dog was barking really loud today. It was like being punched in the head over and over. It triggered my sensitivity so bad I had to go put in earplugs and cover my eyes and lay in bed for hours. I feel fucking useless.

I feel like I’m not convincing anyone of anything, but most of the people I meet in activism spaces are neurodivergent.

I felt the same way about it until I realized I could think of people like an extra set of hands for me to accomplish my work and I became much much more productive… But double edged sword, people don’t like being treated like an extra set of hands. I didn’t last long at that job, but I did get more done than anybody else ever did.

Good leadership skills are now something I immediately have lots of respect for.

I have ADHD too so guess what else I can’t do…

Basic administrative work

I like spreadsheets a lot though so that’s a real head scratcher

Like many folks mentioned there’s plenty of work to be done in making a party function.

You could help your financial departments with record keeping, your tech departments with nerd shit like updating and maintaining websites, your arts and propaganda department with drawing cool shit, your history/research/archivist department digitize old shit or organize documents, hell even just volunteering to be the dweeb that helps keep all the social media stuff posted up-to-date is important work.

People put all the glory on field work but forget that without a support network to make sure they’re well-equipped to do the work they’d be hella nerfed from the get-go. Always remember that any form of work no matter how little it seems to be is always necessary in some way shape or form to the overall movement and whatever contribution you can make no matter how small is always appreciated.

I’ve done a lot of organizing with ND comrades and I’d consider myself one. While you’d probably be uncomfortable in a front-facing position, there’s no reason why you can’t do administrative work.

I prefer to do a vice-president role myself where I handle the organization of what needs to get done and have the bumps and delegations done by someone else.

Just @ me next time

Also:

Auganising? idk workshop it

I’m autistic and live 2 hours away from the nearest city big enough to have an org. Wish I knew how to get my foot in the door for administrative work. Most of my “praxis” is reading theory, subscribing on patreon, and shitposting here occasionally. Good luck everyone.

I don’t know your exact circumstances so I won’t assume anything, but rather make a general statement. Behind the scenes administrative and clerical work is just as important as front facing public outreach. Manual labor is also necessary for many things both above and below ground to get done, and so never feel ashamed about it. The phrase “by each according to his ability” applies very well to us neurodiverse folks- we can find roles that we are good at if we are given half a chance

Any serious effort helps. Its hard getting folks sympathetic to socialism to do anything to work toward it irl, whether they are neurodivergent or neurotypical.

There’s lots of admin tasks my org could use help with that have fallen by the wayside because our most dedicated folks don’t have time to both do admin stuff and “organizing work”.