This page contains documentation on how to communicate with people in the neurodiversity and the wider disability communities in mind and also on gender neutral communication.
1. [Don’t be a dick](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-author-speaks/201909/don-t-be-dick) (aka violent, discriminatory, disrespectful or even disturbing in any way).[^1]
3. Don’t ping me during downtime, sleep and day-offs. In case of emergencies, call me over my personal phone number that I provided or through provided contact methods.
For sensitive manners (like reporting security related issues), use Keybase, Session or Matrix (make sure to enable EE2E when initiating an one-to-one chat with me). If you want to connect through Session, I’ll provide my public ID when needed.
4. No crypto nonsense (even I use mirror.xyz and some other dapps), NSFW or CSAM, self promo hellscape, doxxing, death/swatting threats or calls to violence towards me or anybody.
5. Future employers and recruiters: Please contact via email or LinkedIn only.
6. I only respond over Facebook Messenger on my main profile if:
* you know me IRL, including within the immediate family;
* or, you are either my class adviser/subject teacher/boss or workspace/academic/school colleague, either in the past or current.
My pronouns is `he/they` (technically `he/him/they/them` for long version), although `they/them` is much preferred even if I chose to be identified to my gender at birth.
In terms of discussing about things relating to neurodiversity and disability, I prefer identity first, especially when discussing about my disability and things like neurodiversity,
since I mostly frame ableism and other issues related to these under both social and human rights models of disability.
You might check the [note on disabled and disability](https://www.thesaurus.com/e/writing/person-first-vs-identity-first-language/#note-on-disabled-and-disability) at thesaurus.com,
especially when discussing accessibility across the community. I don’t usually gatekeep language relating to disability, although I might do when discrimination and bullying happens or when clarification is needed.
## Availability
When considering doing a synchronous meeting (or even doing a personal call with me),
consider both my schedule, workload and the timezone (currently in Philippine Standard Time/`UTC+8`).
In most days, I’ll be unavailable for contact from 21:00 to 09:30 the next day, although [this could change](#office-hours).
I’m also unavailable on weekends and official holidays (both local within the city of Marilao and the
province of Bulacan and national), so expect additional delays on replies if it’s a long weekend.
## Communicating at work
Generally, I’m not a fan of sync meetings, especially if iot is scheduled outside of my office hours in PH Standard Time.
* Work-related stuff should be discussed in Recap Time Squad’s chatrooms (either public or staff-only, although anything confidential/internal should be stay in staff-only chat).
* Ping me when only needed. Also, DO NOT ping @everyone.
