Autists conceptualise the world in terms of trusted relationships with unique people.

The beauty of collaboration at human scale

The AutisticAutistic ways of being are human neurological variants that can not be understood without the social model of disability.If you are wondering whether you are Autistic, spend time amongst Autistic people, online and offline.  If… More way of developing trust is based on experienced domain-specific competence. Autistic people:

• (when young) assume everyone is telling the truthJustice, equality, fairness, mercy, longsuffering, Work, Passion, knowledge, and above all else, Truth. Those are my primary emotions.Very Grand Emotions: How Autistics and Neurotypicals Experience Emotions Differently » NeuroClastic https://youtu.be/uPRa6G2a48E… More;
• (when older) can become very cynical;
• can be fooled by people who appear to be logical but who have no scruples fabricating evidence;
• are slow in learning the cultural significance of social cues, and can’t reliably read social cues in an environment of sensory overload.

A common Autistic way of making friends

To construct trusted relationships and friendships, Autistic people apply an explicit goal oriented approach:

1. Search for people with shared interests, usually online
2. Confirm a shared area of interest
3. Start having fun by openly sharing knowledge, personal experiences, and related gaps of knowledge and questions
4. Explore what can be achieved with joint capabilities and capacities
5. Embark on significant joint projects (examples) to have more fun

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Connected, Trusting Relationships

Let’s make it personal.

You have to know the person, and that person has to believe in you.

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Mutual trust. Connected, trusting relationships. That’s how we operate. We default to trust. That need and tendency is wired in deeply.

It might seem naïve, but then again it’s just really honest.

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Competency Networks and Mutual Trust

All healthy and resilient institutions have a well-functioning competency network (Laloux 2014; Wilson 2015). A good way to understand competency networksAll healthy and resilient institutions have a well-functioning competency network (Laloux 2014; Wilson 2015). A good way to understand competency networks is via the notion of trustworthiness and the nurturing… More is via the notion of trustworthiness and the nurturing and maintenance of trusted relationships (Bettin and Elliffe 2016). A competency network can be formalised as a directed graph of experience-based pair-wise trustworthiness ratings in relation to various domains between the members of a group. You can think of it as the gifts that people bring to life by relating to each other.

The Beauty of Collaboration at Human Scale: Timeless patterns of human limitations

On so many levels, interdependenceInterdependence acknowledges that our survival is bound up together, that we are interconnected and what you do impacts others. If this pandemic has done nothing else, it has illuminated how… More requires being seen, as much as possible, as your true self. Meaning that your capacity and need are transparent.

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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