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Hi there!

Totally new to this so please bear with me while I get used to this thing.

I am looking to see if there are any others out there struggling with the norms of a work environment? I have had a very unpleasant run in with a colleague. He has said and done some things which are quite unpleasant, which is terrible. Given we work for a great employer that has been very understanding and inclusive previously.

Some of my struggle is very much grief based, I lost my father coming up to six years ago sadly. I feel a need to have him around even though it isn't possible in reality.

The pain of that thought has led to me imploding in the evenings while they get a lot darker earlier.

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  • work situations can either be very supportive on the outside but when you delve deeper it is subject to peoples conscious and unconscious biases based on what they know or don't about autism.

    Until I was diagnosed I had a certain unconscious bias regarding autism based on stereotypes and what I had been exposed to such as the  'rainman' movie.

    How do we survive against this? I do not have a clue especially now we have the populists shouting loudly about it being over diagnosed and something of a fad to claim benefits. This all feeds into peoples unconscious bias. 

  • in reply to Mr T

    Sadly its proving true in a place I never thought it would be possible. All the while I get told that systems are getting better with helping get more people employed. A load of nonsense, when it comes to someone living with something on the spectrum. I didn't believe them then and I certainly don't now.

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  • in reply to Mr T

    Sadly its proving true in a place I never thought it would be possible. All the while I get told that systems are getting better with helping get more people employed. A load of nonsense, when it comes to someone living with something on the spectrum. I didn't believe them then and I certainly don't now.

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