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?
long before my post-Covid diagnosis in later life, in both school and at work, even before I came out as gay (where I also encountered such bullying attitudes within the gay community) has very much been the reality of my experience, including before Covid - however, in the post-Covid era, post-diagnosis, any bullying behaviour is more difficult to define, as a diagnosis would make it more difficult to assert your legal rights if indeed you were being bullied, especially if diagnosis has been disclosed at any point - to me as an older gay man though, it points to wider ethical and moral questions in the post-Covid era, given my own traditional Irish Catholic faith
I wonder about the position of the Irish church about the issue. I was raised in the traditional Italian roman catholic faith, and I remember a lot of violent homophobia.
I do not know about NI, but I remember right wing extremists in Italy doing a lot of queer bashing in the eighties. The Church gave its silent (or not so silent) approval, and often covered for the perps. That was before all the pedo scandals. I guess that the Christian will forgive you for gay sex, if the victim is a children.
I suspect the church were OK about gay bashing homophobic attacks in Ireland during the 1980’s