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Recently diagnosed with autism!!

Skel1ingt0n

I got diagnosed with autism on Friday 10th November and not sure what to do now, my boss won't be in till after Christmas (she recovering from serious surgery) so I can't let her know, I got a post-diagnosis counselling appointment sometime in December. I don't really know where to go from here, any help would be much appreciated. 

  • Hi Skel1ingt0n, welcome here! 

    That's quite quick to get that appointment within about a month! Maybe there's no reason to do anything right now, just try and let it settle a bit? Is there an urgent reason why work should know? Problems that are likely to get you into serious trouble, like having already received a written warning for sending unprofessional emails when you did nothing else than being honest, or having had meltdowns or shutdowns at work, that sort of thing. In that case it may be worth telling HR (although this can also have the opposite effect and make you much more vulnerable because you are basically telling them which buttons to push to make you react in certain unwanted ways, but I hope that isn't the aim in the place where you work). Otherwise, if it's more about things that are difficult for you to deal with and could be made easier (by "reasonable adjustments") if someone understood the problem, or simply to explain some things that others may have noticed without this having caused problems so far, then I think it may be worth waiting until you had those counselling sessions because there you can discuss these things and they may have useful advice for you (or you may get some advice here too). Either way, best not to rush it, I'd say.