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Work and reasonable adjustments

Lissy02

Hi all, 

I was diagnosed in April this year and I’m in my early 20s, I work in a healthcare setting and let my manager know about my diagnosis. I brought up some reasonable adjustments but was told it’s practically impossible in my line of work, I was sent a link from HR yesterday after they were finally told about my condition 6 months later for mental health at work support. Again I mentioned my reasonable adjustments in the medical questionare submitted to HR but still nothing has been suggested. I’m struggling at work but nobody seems to want to help, the programme they sent me the link to doesn’t handle neurodiverse individuals. Am I being dramatic? And Where do I go from here? 

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  • Lissy02 said:
    I brought up some reasonable adjustments but was told it’s practically impossible in my line of work

    Can you tell us what reasonable adjustments you have asked for?

    I can imagine that in most areas of healthcare there will be a lot of environmental aspects that cannot be changed and a huge amount of unpredictability when dealing with the public, all of which will make this really difficult for some autists to cope with.

    If you have a back office role with no responsibilities for rapid turn around of test results etc then you have a good chance of requesting something to be done, but most other roles will be much more difficult.

    If you can let us know what sort of role you have and what is most overwhelming for you then we may be able to come up with suggestions.

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  • Lissy02 said:
    I brought up some reasonable adjustments but was told it’s practically impossible in my line of work

    Can you tell us what reasonable adjustments you have asked for?

    I can imagine that in most areas of healthcare there will be a lot of environmental aspects that cannot be changed and a huge amount of unpredictability when dealing with the public, all of which will make this really difficult for some autists to cope with.

    If you have a back office role with no responsibilities for rapid turn around of test results etc then you have a good chance of requesting something to be done, but most other roles will be much more difficult.

    If you can let us know what sort of role you have and what is most overwhelming for you then we may be able to come up with suggestions.

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  • in reply to Iain
    Iain said:
    Can you tell us what reasonable adjustments you have asked for?

    Yeah, I agree this could really help us to help you.

    It sounds as if you know what accommodations would help you the most already, but if you need more ideas there is this handy site: askjan.org. Do keep in mind that it is American, so all of the blurbs about legal rights for disabilities aren’t particularly helpful for you, but if you look up your disability on this site it offers a decent list of potential accommodations you might be able to ask for.