#productivity myth

[wisterianwoman]

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[natalunasans]

like on the one hand i’m always willing to shoot down the productivity myth, even talking to people at work (maybe not at meetings, though)

but on the other hand i feel like i do have to prove that I AM USEFUL and I AM NOT LAZY and I DO CONTRIBUTE because as an autistic with a decent job in my field, i know how unlikely and ‘lucky’ (under the still-current unjust conditions for workers with any kind of disability) that is

i read that we shouldn’t just grab the terms invented for discussing systemic racism and its effects, and use them to describe stuff about ableism, because it can erase the layered experiences of people who are having to face BOTH (like my husband, for a close example) but i need a word that’s like a parallel of respectability politics but for pwd. 

the supercr*p concept is really only for people with physical/movement disabilities, i think. and it’s probably not quite the same thing.

i feel like autistics were talking about this some years ago but if there was a word, i lost it.