Published on 12, July, 2020
Do autistic people get screwed over at work more or is it just me? Most jobs I have had I get taken advantage of or treated worse, with less respect, than other collegues by the people I work for. My most recent job I have been borderline defrauded. Two of my three previous ones I had to go to ACAS.
I'm quite a worldly wise person and certainly not naïve but yet I always get treated as if I am a naïve mug who doesn't know what's what.
I'm not saying all this cos I feel sorry for myself, I just want to know if this is a common autistic experience in the workplace or whether it's just me?
Yeah,
Similar to my experience, I have to say. It's like always being an outsider - as usual.
My job now is ok, still an outsider, but my colleagues are ok, they're not unkind, which is a good thing.
I think maybe we're treated like alien idiots because we don't speak the NT language- which leads many of them to assume stupidity. Selective mutism, which some of us have, leads people to assume a lack of understanding.
I've had that a lot.
Question.....
Pegg said:It's like always being an outsider - as usual.
Do you actually want to be an insider?
For ages, I thought I did......then I realised that I didn't, and now I'm pretty sure I still don't !
I am always an "insider" with one other soul at a time, but when it comes to 'groups', I seem most happy being the "other" bloke.
Yeah... No!
I suppose to clarify, I don't want to stand out, because the attention that draws is just bad, in so many ways.
If people think you're not like them, it can easily lead to persecution.
In my experience
Pegg said:I suppose to clarify, I don't want to stand out, because the attention that draws is just bad, in so many ways. If people think you're not like them, it can easily lead to persecution. In my experience
My experience too, all my life.
From school to jobs... being 'attractive', brains and being 'odd' and very different from other women are not a good combination to allow you to get on with/be accepted by them, in my experience .. and led to bullying, big time.