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

Workplace struggles? You’re NOT alone.

19 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston talks about getting workplace accommodations when you're neurodivergent or disabled. She says to learn self-regulation when accommodations aren't there, speak up constructively instead of exploding, and don't let your frustration spill onto other people.

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You have to learn how to adjust and self-regulate in moments when you can't get the accommodations you need. The world is a mix of neurodivergent and neurotypicals and people with disability, physical disabilities, mental disabilities, visible disabilities, invisible disabilities. In the world, the workplace cannot accommodate all of them, not naturally. Can they do a better job, workplaces, than they are now? Absolutely. However, They're not going to automatically accommodate you. You have to learn how to adjust and self-regulate in moments when you can't get the accommodations you need. And you also have to learn to speak up for yourself in a positive way, not just exploding and things like that. But that doesn't mean that we can treat others around us with the results of that internal feeling.