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?
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
I didn't really mind the name calling as that was part of daily life and one can ignore that. Is the physical aspect I didn't like.
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Save it. I won't argue with you.
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.
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
Since you've already lied floridly once in this thread, I'd need a second opinion from a fair witness before giving that any consideration whatsoever.
You started it
Judge Dredd said:So, we can just leave it there.
Until the next time you pop up to mouth off in what appears to be a somewhat deranged manner in my direction, sure.
Edit: Your time is probably better spent writing decent posts that help other people like the one I upvoted earlier today rather than trying to do whatever it is you think you are doing here.
The judgement on display here, is indeed, dreddful. I cannot begin to imagine the sad, empty and angry void that causes such corrosion to spew forth. Tragic. With deep and sincere pity.
Spergy, I could say much and much worse, but then the mods would ban me for harassing a vulnerable person. So, we can just leave it there.
That's just such a weak attempt at abuse.
Spergy, you never interacted with such a person in your life. Do not talk about things you do not know anything about.
I am laughing soo much as we have had plenty of cats and dogs in the past and I remeber their face when the vet did that! Their eyes! It was like they were saying "WHAT IS HE DOING?"
Poor things!
Same here. I have two degrees and a postgraduate, and still treated as stupid :-(
Yes often, I ended up so burnt out from it all I could not work again and other factors. sometimes I would find a nicer environment but even that was difficult.
My experiences in the workplace have been predominantly negative but of course back then I didn't know why.
This is a relevant and interesting article on neurotypical privilege:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2022/02/24/neurotypical-privilege-in-the-labour-market/
Roy said:I find people put their needs first, my well-being seems unimportant to them.
So true...
Digital thermometer in the ear?