I don't know what it is with my work.
I'm working with a support worker through access to work to try and make my working environment a bit more autism friendly. I've only told my manager about this directly and she's obviously told my supervisor as I need time to actually speak to said support worker. As I work in the nhs patient facing the whole process is done by phone.
I was working on Saturday and my colleague asked how I was getting on with my support worker. I answered in a neutral sort of way because I wasn't expecting the question and I was in the middle of a work task.
I don't know who would have told her, it's not like she could have worked it out by seeing him as he's never here. I take the calls in another area and it's not strange for me to take calls at work because I have hospital appointments and university stuff that happens by phone too.
If my manager told her it would have been because she's assumed that I've already told her (she's the first person I disclosed my autism to without needing to), if my supervisor disclosed then I'm not sure what that would have been about.
Now I'm worried that more people know about me than I am aware of and it's making me wonder who knows what and why people are talking about it.
I can't ask my colleague who told her because she is off all week on annual leave. I don't think I could ask my supervisor because we have a terrible relationship, I don't work on the same site as my manager and I don't think this is a conversation for email or phone because people take my tone differently than I expect them to.
So I'm not sure what to do. I obviously can't undo what's happened but I'd like to know the reasoning and I'm not sure how I'd find that out without making people turn on me.
