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Employment law protection for those with Aspergers?

DeckardB26354

Hi there,

I was diagnosed with Aspergers a couple of months back - which certainly explained a lot to me & came as a relief too. 

I have always had difficulty with working & never been in each job I've had for more than a year. 

My trouble with work has always been getting on with other employees, or in the case of when I was self employed, clients!

This has mostly been other people upsetting me, to the point I have a bit of a melt down & leave. It's also less frequently been my direct behaviour - an example being me going into a colleague's drawer to use their hand sanitiser & not realising that broke social etiquette and was upsetting to her, getting reprimanded by the boss & feeling ostracised   

I want to go back to work - and need the income of an average UK salary, but I'm very fearful of doing anything but low paid, simple jobs, like working in a cinema (I'm a big film fan :) )

My actual field of work for which I'm qualified is financial services, doing research & planning for financial advisers. Although I haven't worked at all now for 2 years after a huge melt down in my last job, which turned my life upside down.  

I therefore wondered what protection there was in employment law for those of us with Aspergers, what it provides & how to disclose having Aspergers to an employer & how that's gone for you guys. 

I feel now my social awkwardness can be explained, if I have legal protection from unfair treatment, I'd go back to a demanding job  

Thanks a lot :)

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  • The Equalities Act allows you to ask your employer for things called Reasonable Adjustments so that you are not disadvantaged and can carry out your job. The ones I have had agreed include getting 48 hours notice of meetings and having all requests for work  put in writing. I also get to use the disabled loo at work because the hand dryers in the womens ones are so loud I can't stand it.

    Your employer is obliged to consider your request for a reasonable adjustment and can be prosecuted if they refuse to grant them without vaild legal reasons.

    I have not told anyone but my manager that I'm autistic. I would never tell my colleagues, I feel safer that way.

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  • The Equalities Act allows you to ask your employer for things called Reasonable Adjustments so that you are not disadvantaged and can carry out your job. The ones I have had agreed include getting 48 hours notice of meetings and having all requests for work  put in writing. I also get to use the disabled loo at work because the hand dryers in the womens ones are so loud I can't stand it.

    Your employer is obliged to consider your request for a reasonable adjustment and can be prosecuted if they refuse to grant them without vaild legal reasons.

    I have not told anyone but my manager that I'm autistic. I would never tell my colleagues, I feel safer that way.

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