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Assistive tooling that saves real time, disclosure conversations with scripts you can adapt, and how to judge an employer before you join.

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Assistive tooling

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Dictation-first writing: tickets, emails and docs by voice

Most dyslexic engineers explain brilliantly out loud and painfully in text. Dictation closes that gap - here's a working setup and the editing pass that makes it professional.

5 min read

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A runbook template that works at 3am (for every brain)

Diagram first, one action per step, commands in blocks, explicit success criteria. Copy this template and stop writing prose runbooks.

5 min read

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The text-to-speech toolkit for ops work

For many dyslexic technical staff, TTS is the tool that makes the biggest difference. What to use for tickets, docs, email and code review, and how to set speeds.

7 min read

Disclosure & workplace conversations

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The adjustments menu: what to actually ask an employer for

'Reasonable adjustments' is uselessly vague. Here is a concrete menu of low-cost, high-impact asks for dyslexia, ADHD and autism in technical roles.

5 min read

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Deciding whether, when and how to disclose at work

A practical decision guide: the three disclosure routes, what each one gets you, and scripts for the conversations.

8 min read

Neurodivergent-friendly employers

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What a genuinely neurodivergent-friendly employer looks like (and how to spot one from outside)

Forget the careers-page badge. Here are the signals that predict how a company will actually treat you, and interview questions that surface them.

6 min read

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