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Being asked to take off my hat.

MidEssexGuy

Like many people on the spectrum, I am seriously senstive to light, mostly artifical light. I wear a cap to block out bright lights when I'm out and about, often with sunglasses as and when I feel I need them. It'll only take a few minutes of bright lights for my brain to start struggling and it can take hours to recover.

Dispite all my sensory and social challenges, I do have a very good social life but sometimes I have to cut my nights short. I'm not allowed to wear a cap in most bar's in town, no matter how much I explain. I see my friends for the warm up drinks, then I have to go home when they go else where.

I've also had this issue in local shops before (they don't allow hats for security issues). I just tell them I need it because I'm autistic and if they don't like that I refuse to buy anything there.

It's not a day to day issue but it's horrible feeling left out, for something I can't help.

Anyone know the legal position on this?

(ps. I really wish this forum had a spell checker )

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  • It may be the style of hat you may be wearing that can upset the security guards etc but am only second guessing this.

    I think we need a better sign than the NAS card. Perhaps one should work on something. After all why should we wear a badge saying we are autistic and get unwanted attention from the wrong sorts.  I card yes, should be enough to show appropriate people when they are giving us a hard time but it don't really seem to be working does it. 

    It is a big ask that all security people be trained to recognise when a person shows them a medical card in support that they just not being defiant towards them but just have a major problem... It be whole lot easier if people could learn to be considerate of others. Clearly some more work needs to be done in trying to educate the population that we are not deliberately seeking trouble but really are in difficulty if we comply to what they want us to do. 

    I don't know of any legal stance here but with NAS; you could put together a policy and work at making it a legal issue?

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  • It may be the style of hat you may be wearing that can upset the security guards etc but am only second guessing this.

    I think we need a better sign than the NAS card. Perhaps one should work on something. After all why should we wear a badge saying we are autistic and get unwanted attention from the wrong sorts.  I card yes, should be enough to show appropriate people when they are giving us a hard time but it don't really seem to be working does it. 

    It is a big ask that all security people be trained to recognise when a person shows them a medical card in support that they just not being defiant towards them but just have a major problem... It be whole lot easier if people could learn to be considerate of others. Clearly some more work needs to be done in trying to educate the population that we are not deliberately seeking trouble but really are in difficulty if we comply to what they want us to do. 

    I don't know of any legal stance here but with NAS; you could put together a policy and work at making it a legal issue?

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