Hi,
I have been working with the company (a nursery) for over 8 years now and I absolutely love my job. I have high functioning autism, I wasn’t diagnosed until my early 20’s and it effects very little of my day to day life at work as work is a role, I can do that. (It’s hard to explain). Anyways throughout my career I have had to prove myself and work harder than anyone else (partly because I suffered from depression and anxiety early on in my career but I haven’t suffered from this for about 6 years). It took me longer to get a senior position and I was told that they had pushed me harder than anyone else because they needed to see that I would not break and could handle it. I didn’t think this was overly fair but I accepted it. Well I have been working towards a management position for the past two/three years but recently was told that I will never get the position because they do not think that I can handle the tricky situations with team/ parents etc. I do not believe this to be true. They said they have given me opportunities to show this but I deal with staff and parents all the time and have never had a problem. How can they know I cannot do the position if they will not let me try it? I would even be happy to do a trial basis to prove myself. I feel like I am being discriminated against but don’t know what to do? Any help and support would be very much appreciated.
