I want to understand about autistic adults difficulties which they face in workplace.

For a lot of people, work problems include sensory sensitivities including strip lighting, noises or smells, decoding office politics, having to make pleasantries and conforming. I don't think I have any of those problems (but then my self-monitoring is really poor), but rather the problem is not being able to say what the problem is.  In my case it's quite elusive.

I do find switching attention difficult: working on a computer I can have too many different tasks vying for attention. My executive function is not good - I can be self-motivated, but then question myself about whether I was motivated to do the right thing or got distracted.  I can stay very late at work. I have had meltdowns when I've felt I'm persistently not being understood. A lot of it is self-doubt, possibly unjustified, and doubt about how worthwhile some of the role or organisation is. There's no opportunity to talk about those kinds of things.  I can make banter and be very co-operative, but I'm not great at making friends - I probably appear shy or standoffish.

Before my diagnosis, I had to take time off with depression: I was forcing myself to work at something with whatever the opposite of enthusiasm is, maybe a kind of internalised 'PDA'; I thought I wanted to do a work task, but I couldn't make myself do it, possibly because of anxiety that I'm not aware of.  These are all quite internal things, perhaps because I'm lucky enough to work in a good progressive organisation and my colleagues are all nice.

For a lot of people, work problems include sensory sensitivities including strip lighting, noises or smells, decoding office politics, having to make pleasantries and conforming. I don't think I have any of those problems (but then my self-monitoring is really poor), but rather the problem is not being able to say what the problem is.  In my case it's quite elusive.

I do find switching attention difficult: working on a computer I can have too many different tasks vying for attention. My executive function is not good - I can be self-motivated, but then question myself about whether I was motivated to do the right thing or got distracted.  I can stay very late at work. I have had meltdowns when I've felt I'm persistently not being understood. A lot of it is self-doubt, possibly unjustified, and doubt about how worthwhile some of the role or organisation is. There's no opportunity to talk about those kinds of things.  I can make banter and be very co-operative, but I'm not great at making friends - I probably appear shy or standoffish.

Before my diagnosis, I had to take time off with depression: I was forcing myself to work at something with whatever the opposite of enthusiasm is, maybe a kind of internalised 'PDA'; I thought I wanted to do a work task, but I couldn't make myself do it, possibly because of anxiety that I'm not aware of.  These are all quite internal things, perhaps because I'm lucky enough to work in a good progressive organisation and my colleagues are all nice.