Benefits + support for Autistic Spectrum Disorder

PIP is based on the impact of your disability on your daily life not the diagnosis, AA is easier to get but you have to be over pension age. I'm not sure I see your point. Yes if you are able to, you have to work, same as any other adult with a disability. 

However, physical disabilities are much better catered for in the workplace than those with hidden disabilities. In my past place of work - a research institute - there were laboratory benches that could be adjusted in height, each floor had two toilets for the disabled and everywhere was accessible for wheelchair users. As it was a modern building, there were open plan offices and even the closed offices had a glass wall. Everywhere was glass or open, even the laboratories. As a result, I constantly felt 'too in public', had no respite from other people and was vulnerable and anxious a lot of the time. From time to time I would go either to a toilet, or to the top of a flight of stairs that led to the roof, just to be on my own and unobserved. The place I worked in was affecting my wellbeing through its design.

Martin said:

From time to time I would go either to a toilet

I used to sit in the toilet for respite from my busy workplaces too.

I did most of my revision for my uni finals in the toilets in the basement of the maths department. Hardly anyone used them. It was a much better environment for study than the library, which was busy and noisy.

I did most of my revision for my uni finals in the toilets in the basement of the maths department. Hardly anyone used them. It was a much better environment for study than the library, which was busy and noisy.