Mephistophelian Commodities and Pathological Demand Avoidance:
There is a difference between goods and commodities.
Commodities by definition have a marketable value.
Goods can be priceless, like enjoying a sunset, or taking a walk with a friend to enjoy the sunset.
Paradoxically, in countries that pay blood donors, they have less amounts of blood given.*
Getting a niddle stuck up our vein does not worth the compensation money it seems. Yet, these statistics show that we are more akin to suffer our blood being sucked for the noble feeling of doing something nice.
This is the main aspect of human psyche that parents and employers seem to have totally misunderstood.
Coming to neurodiverse children and employees, speaking out of personal experience, we tent to get more and more discouraged by every mainstream attempt to boost our performance/behaviour.
It’s not all about money or power games for us.
We usually don’t understand and surely don’t care about games like that beyond the need to pay rent and not end up being a victim.
Neurotypicals seem to enjoy those games, get inspired by them, they their better selves when those games are used.
I take that back, sorry. My bad, I’m not keeping my own principles in the last sentence. I can’t assume what’s happening in other people’s heads.
Still, neurotypicals and even all institutional policies thrive in a sense of competition and professionalism being measured by digits of bank accounts.
Autistic people tent to remember that Vincent was just one of the artists that died poor.
We want to be inspired. We want to feel secure in the knowledge that having a bad day is ok.
We want to show you that we will deliver the project on time, and the project will be better if instead of reminding us the money you pay us, give us a noble reason to give our best.
No one’s best should be bought with money or bullying.
It’s like selling our souls to the devil. No amount of fortune or power is worth our souls.
If we give our work, it won’t be as a commodity. That’s not how we go the extra mile, that’s where society gets confused.
Give us a reason to be inspired.
Then sit back and watch us thrive.
PS. I do NOT mean we don’t need the payment too. However, it’s mostly our landlord and the supermarket that does.
Note to self: Can’t believe I had to add the PS to make sure that this point won’t be missed.
*References: Talking to my daughter about the economy
Book by Yanis Varoufakis
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