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Struggles at work

Vickstick

Hi all. I'm late diagnosed Autism and ADHD (diagnosed at the age of 49) and I work as a full time Admin Team Lead. The struggle I'm having is that after a particularly busy work day, I find that I'm pretty much useless the day after. Like yesterday I had back to back meetings and staff supervisions, catch ups with various people and phonelines to cover. Super busy and hectic. Today I can barely function. I have some stuff that I need to get done, not a whole lot, but it's nearly 11am and I can't even get started. I'm medicated for ADHD but even that is not helping today. I can barely even talk today.

Does anyone else get like this? It's so bad, it's almost painful.

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  • Yes.

    I tried to make the point at my last workplace that asking someone autistic into the office just in case someone had a question could drastically affect productivity for following days. Even more so combined with other stresses such as commuting traffic, personal out of hours commitments, and many other factors.

    They just stuck to their line of "We've found people are more productive in the office". It's discrimination but unfortunately my particular circumstances didn't allow for any action.

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  • Yes.

    I tried to make the point at my last workplace that asking someone autistic into the office just in case someone had a question could drastically affect productivity for following days. Even more so combined with other stresses such as commuting traffic, personal out of hours commitments, and many other factors.

    They just stuck to their line of "We've found people are more productive in the office". It's discrimination but unfortunately my particular circumstances didn't allow for any action.

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