explaining to my employer

Honestly from experience disclosing that you are currently awaiting diagnosis for both Autism and ADHD may be a seriously bad decision. People are evil and will use that fact to harass and escape goat on you leading to more problems at work. People often tend to confuse autism and adhd with intellectual disabilities and mental health disorders which other co worker can use to make you appear unhinged or mentally disturbed. Typically the company you work for will start looking into ways of managing you out of the workplace or encourage bullying to get rid of you as typically making reasonable adjustment within the workplace is hassle to your employer and they we view you as an unnecessary financial expense to adapt the workplace. 

If you are going to disclose that you are currently awaiting to be assessed for both autism and adhd i would recommend you get a doctors letter and hand a copy into your human resources or employer to put in you employee record as proof that you have discussed and disclosed the fact you may have a possible disability.. 

I don't mean to be rude, but what was your experience disclosing your diagnosis? It sounds like it was pretty bad.

I don’t think it’s rude to ask but I have tried multiple different ways of disclosing my diagnosis in about 17 different employment opportunities and I have even tried not disclosing my diagnosis and hiding my autism traits at work. Not disclosing and hiding my autistic traits was a massive Mistake I don’t recommend you do it, you make yourself ill and exhausted until you don’t have the energy to camouflage and mask you autistic traits.

Before the age of twenty two before receiving my autism diagnosis I was awaiting to be assessed from the age of sixteen. I had worked in a multitude of different work environments as a livestock worker, kitchen assistant, horticultural worker, cleaner, floor associate, shop assistant, bar tender, landscape gardener, warehouse worker and factory worker.

In many of the work environments while waiting for my diagnosis, their always seemed to be one  co workers who notice my autism related traits and in many of these situations they would unnecessarily go to my employer and share their  suspicious, which would end up with me having to attend a meeting with my employer which would end up ending in one of three situations.

1) I would get to the end of my initial agreed probation period and then they would unfairly extend it time and time again and initiate the legal managing out protocol which involves giving me un realistic tasks and finding any excuse to discipline procedures. 

2) the employer would use the fact that I haven’t got a official diagnosis and would scrutinise for pursing it and encourage workplace bullying Against me, if I was on a zero hour contract they would purposely give me less hours, give me irradiated hours working two three hour shifts five hours apart and even change rota with no notice to intentionally trying to make me struggle.

3) the employer would try and use every legal  jargon in the book to encourage me too quit until I agree to quit on “good terms” and in some situations it was suggested that I was a danger too my coworkers despite never having a meltdown at work.

The most recent employment opportunities when I disclosed my autism diagnosis was horrific. My employer had disclosed my autism diagnosis with the entire team against my wishes. I was working with six other men who had no understanding of autism and they used it as an opportunity to scapegoat, verbal abuse me, physically abuse me and put me in dangerous and health compromising positions. It wasn’t jokes and banter it was abuse. Because I’m relatively intelligent some of the staff out of nowhere kept bring up that I must have faked being autistic and that I shouldn't be working because I can claim benefits and get everything handed to me. 

I had put up with this work situation for over five months until an incident involving a co worker poisoning my food and another coworker stabbing me with a concoctions of animal vaccine, animal medicines with a dirty used needle. when I reported what happened to my boss with evidence of puncture wounds and the report from A&E because I needed time off because I was really unwell and suffering with PTSD because what my co workers did to me my employer at the time told me to not go to the police and he would deal with it internally which was a mistake as During my time off my employer at the time called me up and fired me for being mentally unstable with claims by the other co worker I had done all that stuff to myself despite grounds keeper wildlife Camera capturing the entire situation.

I worked after my diagnosis in very popular pub chain after three months and managed to get through my probational period, I decided to disclose my autism diagnosis. I was terminated immediately as my contract had a fail to disclose clause.

I can keep going on by these are just some examples. 

I don’t think it’s rude to ask but I have tried multiple different ways of disclosing my diagnosis in about 17 different employment opportunities and I have even tried not disclosing my diagnosis and hiding my autism traits at work. Not disclosing and hiding my autistic traits was a massive Mistake I don’t recommend you do it, you make yourself ill and exhausted until you don’t have the energy to camouflage and mask you autistic traits.

Before the age of twenty two before receiving my autism diagnosis I was awaiting to be assessed from the age of sixteen. I had worked in a multitude of different work environments as a livestock worker, kitchen assistant, horticultural worker, cleaner, floor associate, shop assistant, bar tender, landscape gardener, warehouse worker and factory worker.

In many of the work environments while waiting for my diagnosis, their always seemed to be one  co workers who notice my autism related traits and in many of these situations they would unnecessarily go to my employer and share their  suspicious, which would end up with me having to attend a meeting with my employer which would end up ending in one of three situations.

1) I would get to the end of my initial agreed probation period and then they would unfairly extend it time and time again and initiate the legal managing out protocol which involves giving me un realistic tasks and finding any excuse to discipline procedures. 

2) the employer would use the fact that I haven’t got a official diagnosis and would scrutinise for pursing it and encourage workplace bullying Against me, if I was on a zero hour contract they would purposely give me less hours, give me irradiated hours working two three hour shifts five hours apart and even change rota with no notice to intentionally trying to make me struggle.

3) the employer would try and use every legal  jargon in the book to encourage me too quit until I agree to quit on “good terms” and in some situations it was suggested that I was a danger too my coworkers despite never having a meltdown at work.

The most recent employment opportunities when I disclosed my autism diagnosis was horrific. My employer had disclosed my autism diagnosis with the entire team against my wishes. I was working with six other men who had no understanding of autism and they used it as an opportunity to scapegoat, verbal abuse me, physically abuse me and put me in dangerous and health compromising positions. It wasn’t jokes and banter it was abuse. Because I’m relatively intelligent some of the staff out of nowhere kept bring up that I must have faked being autistic and that I shouldn't be working because I can claim benefits and get everything handed to me. 

I had put up with this work situation for over five months until an incident involving a co worker poisoning my food and another coworker stabbing me with a concoctions of animal vaccine, animal medicines with a dirty used needle. when I reported what happened to my boss with evidence of puncture wounds and the report from A&E because I needed time off because I was really unwell and suffering with PTSD because what my co workers did to me my employer at the time told me to not go to the police and he would deal with it internally which was a mistake as During my time off my employer at the time called me up and fired me for being mentally unstable with claims by the other co worker I had done all that stuff to myself despite grounds keeper wildlife Camera capturing the entire situation.

I worked after my diagnosis in very popular pub chain after three months and managed to get through my probational period, I decided to disclose my autism diagnosis. I was terminated immediately as my contract had a fail to disclose clause.

I can keep going on by these are just some examples.