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Employers not understanding my autism

Creativemum

My daughter has a problem where the employer doesn't understand how autism impacts her drive to the office.

Traffic is unpredictable and often awful making my daughter late. She leaves plenty of time to travel  but can still have problems.

Employer has told her to check Google maps every day then chose different routes dependant on each days traffic. Also suggested using a mixture of driving and public transport.

All of this plus increases to required office attendance causes a build up of stress and anxiety.

I think all this is completely unreasonable. She's good at her job and valued in the workplace, but it seems there is a complete lack of understanding where ASD is concerned.

Can she get them to make reasonable adjustments like reducing office attendance, sticking to fixed schedules, and making allowances or enabling discrepancies in attendance to be made up at the end of shift for example?

I can't stand seeing her so upset, when she has such a good work ethic and hates confrontation.

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  • I have reasonable adjustments at work. They're due to my bipolar rather than autism (because I've only recently been diagnosed autistic). I work adjusted hours 7am-3pm and only go into the office on Friday. This has been my work pattern for nearly 10 years and I kept access to the office all through covid. Suddenly post covid they insisted everyone had to be in 2 days. I simply got my manager to do a referral to Occupational Health who talked to me for about an hour then wrote up a recommendation that I keep the same work pattern I had pre-covid and they accepted it. Really easy!

    Re traffic issues, would an earlier or later start/finish time be a solution if they're wedded to office attendance?

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  • I have reasonable adjustments at work. They're due to my bipolar rather than autism (because I've only recently been diagnosed autistic). I work adjusted hours 7am-3pm and only go into the office on Friday. This has been my work pattern for nearly 10 years and I kept access to the office all through covid. Suddenly post covid they insisted everyone had to be in 2 days. I simply got my manager to do a referral to Occupational Health who talked to me for about an hour then wrote up a recommendation that I keep the same work pattern I had pre-covid and they accepted it. Really easy!

    Re traffic issues, would an earlier or later start/finish time be a solution if they're wedded to office attendance?

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