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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by banannaise on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:49PM (#31251982)
> Body language helps with basic things like "Oh, Amy is trying to break in and is struggling to make her point", or "Hmm, Doug looks like he's concerned about something, I should ask him his opinion".

I'm autistic. My body language conveys things that are interpreted incorrectly by nearly everyone, particularly in management. This leads to me having to explain repeatedly that no, that's not what I'm experiencing at all, please stop.

When people don't get those cues from me, they understand me better, not worse.

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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by passivate on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @03:12PM (#31252267)
To make it more general, non-autistic people also sometimes have trouble with body language. The non-controversial point is most humans fall somewhere on the spectrum where they're able to read others' body language - with a minority being outliers.
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