Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Building Community and Accountabiity: A Neurodivergent Necessity #selfcare #sensoryoverload

3 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker emphasizes that community and accountability function as essential daily accommodations for most neurodivergent individuals. They argue that the need for regular social interaction and shared responsibility is not unique to neurodivergent people but a fundamental human requirement. The speaker introduces the concept of the "third place"—informal gathering spots outside home and work that many cultures use multiple times a day to build friendships and support networks. Noting that such third places have largely disappeared in the United States, they highlight the resulting gap in communal support. The overall message calls for recognizing community-building and accountability as universal human needs and suggests that restoring or creating third‑place environments could serve as a vital accommodation for neurodivergent people and the broader population alike.

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What accommodation do you need to make today good? Often, almost all, almost all, not all, but almost all neurodivergent people need community and accountability every single day. So those are accommodations that we need. Yeah. The funny thing is, is they talk about, and I've been hearing, seeing a lot of news stories for just the normal people out there, that we don't have our third place. Any longer, especially in the US. And the third place is in other countries. Do you know that they meet together before work, after work, for lunch, and rest in a group and build community and friendships? And they do that multiple times a day. We don't do that here in the US. And for some reason, we think that that's not a thing. Yeah. It is a thing. It's a thing that we as humans need. So wanting to build a community and having accountability is a human experience, not a neurodivergent experience. So what things as a human