Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello all. I’m new here and hoped someone may be able to help me, or whether anyone has experience with this. I have searched the forum but couldn’t find anything quite like the issue I have.
I have been in continuous employment at one company for the last 7 years. I am a female in my 30s.
I am currently going through the autism diagnostic process with the NHS. I have completed Stage 1 and have been invited back for Stage 2, though I don’t have a date for this yet.
I do intend to tell work if a diagnosis is confirmed, however something has come up and I may need to disclose this earlier than anticipated.
Has anyone been in a situation like this before? Is it worth telling them even though I don’t know if it will be confirmed?
Hello! I told work at the end of last year before my official diagnosis (which I now have) as a situation arose and I feel I needed to explain myself.
Hi, did this work out well for you?
It did because it explained my slightly awkward way of being, I could get time off for assessment appointments and giving them my diagnosis came as no surprise. Now I can get support
Similarly, I told my immediate team at the start of the year that I was undergoing assessment for ASD - it explained the frequent 'Dr appointments' I was attending, plus there were a couple of low-level 'incidents' where I was... overly honest in my feedback on a subject (!) and it seemed appropriate to provide some sort of explanation...
When I got the diagnosis I told the overall manager - I was the second person in 2 weeks to let him know they'd been diagnosed with ASD as an adult.