Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi
I was diagnosed 4 months ago, & was a late diagnosed in my 40's. I have always thought everyone had the same struggles & sensory issues that I had & learnt to tolerate a lot of things in my life. I have disclosed my diagnosis to my manager, & was talking to her about my struggles & got shut down & told "everyone feels like that". I struggle to explain how I feel & was one of the few times I have ever opened up at work & I was just shut down. This was a few weeks ago & I keep replaying the conversations & can't figure out how I should respond to comments like this. I know this conversation will come up again, as I have asked for an occupational health referral to discuss reasonable adjustments.
If people have good answers to the everyone feels like that statement or ways to deal with this, I'd love to hear them.
Thank you
Hi, something that went through my mind is maybe this person does feel the same feelings, autistic and just doesn’t realise it yet.
I feel like it's more usually that people don't have the empathy/ imagination to realise how strong feelings can be if they don't personally experience them. Like they feel nervous before giving a presentation and can't imagine how intense that feeling could get for someone else, so they're dismissive and just think that person's being soft.