Published on 12, July, 2020
Recently diagnosed and first time posting! Hello!
I am having difficulty at work in so many ways and desperately want to keep working. One is the main things I really am struggling with at the moment being able to use a headset for meetings and things over teams as I get so distracted by background noise around me, get really overwhelmed and then cannot focus or concentrate, so I loose my ability to engage in a conversation which is obviously really affecting me. I spoke to IT department today about getting a noise cancelling headset but been told anything like that has to go through HR as a reasonable adjustment and would have to provide medical evidence etc I don’t know how I feel about being open about my diagnosis at work and how it affects me. Any experience with this? Positive or negative? anyone tried a noise cancelling headset? Did it help? Any other suggestions to try? thanks!
I dont want to put you off cos my experiences are only my own and different from other peoples but I am just coming out of a situation where I disclosed my autism at work and asked for reasonable adjustments for the first time ever and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. I was discriminated against really badly.
Like I said tho, not everywhere is the same and it might be different for you. Just go into it with your eyes open and guard yourself
Hello,
oh god that’s awful that asking for reasonable adjustments triggered such a bad experience. It’s shocking that things like that still happen. This is what really worries me. Thanks for the advice. If you don’t mind sharing what happened when you did disclose it? Feel free to not answer, don’t want to rehash it all as it sounds like a horrendous time for you, if you don’t feel comfortable doing so.