Difficulty with changes at work

Have you thought about the adjustments you need?  Such things as removal of work stressors, realistic workload, performance adjustments, quiet space, frequent breaks, 'proper' consultation over changes, fixed working hours, and also training for staff and a support worker may all be 'reasonable' adjustments and could be many others.

Your psychologist may also help you with the reasonable adjustments you should ask for.  Ask her/him to include some reasonable adjustments that will help you to be included as an annexe to the diagnosis report - mine was very helpful.

Also contact Access to Work (government scheme, just google it).  There is a quite simple form to complete, and if approved (should be no problem) will provide you with funding for a support worker and training for staff in autism awareness and acceptance and they will suggest other adjustments that may help. I had a printer and scanner for my exclusive use as it is frustrating to have to wait for other people to finish using the normal office one and by the time I would get to use it I would either have forgotten what I wanted it for or been well on my way to meltdown! For me they even said they would pay for a taxi to and from work, which I declined as it was easy enough for me to get to work although the journey is lengthy.

My support worker is funded by Access to Work, and I have her help for two 90 minute sessions a month, plus email/phone access at any reasonable time to discuss problems.  One of these sessions is entirely private for me to discuss any problems I have, the other is for a monthly session with my manager for discussion of work issues ('supervision').  The support worker is very useful if the manager cannot see that my so called 'behaviour issues' are due to autism and not due to insubordination.  For instance my manager took offence at my rocking in my chair and 'staring' but my support worker was very helpful in explaining this  being an effect autism has on me.

The purpose of Access to Work is to keep you in a job, so there  is nothing to worry about in contacting them. 

Good luck!

Have you thought about the adjustments you need?  Such things as removal of work stressors, realistic workload, performance adjustments, quiet space, frequent breaks, 'proper' consultation over changes, fixed working hours, and also training for staff and a support worker may all be 'reasonable' adjustments and could be many others.

Your psychologist may also help you with the reasonable adjustments you should ask for.  Ask her/him to include some reasonable adjustments that will help you to be included as an annexe to the diagnosis report - mine was very helpful.

Also contact Access to Work (government scheme, just google it).  There is a quite simple form to complete, and if approved (should be no problem) will provide you with funding for a support worker and training for staff in autism awareness and acceptance and they will suggest other adjustments that may help. I had a printer and scanner for my exclusive use as it is frustrating to have to wait for other people to finish using the normal office one and by the time I would get to use it I would either have forgotten what I wanted it for or been well on my way to meltdown! For me they even said they would pay for a taxi to and from work, which I declined as it was easy enough for me to get to work although the journey is lengthy.

My support worker is funded by Access to Work, and I have her help for two 90 minute sessions a month, plus email/phone access at any reasonable time to discuss problems.  One of these sessions is entirely private for me to discuss any problems I have, the other is for a monthly session with my manager for discussion of work issues ('supervision').  The support worker is very useful if the manager cannot see that my so called 'behaviour issues' are due to autism and not due to insubordination.  For instance my manager took offence at my rocking in my chair and 'staring' but my support worker was very helpful in explaining this  being an effect autism has on me.

The purpose of Access to Work is to keep you in a job, so there  is nothing to worry about in contacting them. 

Good luck!