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NAS70989

Hi, I hear autistic people can do well in a job, but I also fear they can tragically fail. I'm reading about being absent minded, lost in their own world, not taking things in easily, gaps in skills, abrupt and aggresive, I have identified with all these. I also read about focus and precision, time reliably and good work ethic. Sadly I identify more with the first, but I also have nounerous mental health problems and very traumatic childhood. 

Still, which positives and negatives have autistic people with at the workplace? I'm currently on disability benefits, but I wonder what is the general experience of people with mental health problems at the workplace?

Please sign some light! 

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  • Thanks very much thanks to all of you! Yes around my special interests I agree. Luckily I'm already in one of them! I'm also lucky as they know me now and they can only do reasonable adjustments as i have too many disabilities now and the work I do is for the NHS as a service user in various projects. Joy total disclosure and reasonable adjustments now but went through hell to get here. 

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    Watch yourself if you want employment in the NHS. 

    They'll obviously be nice to service users, you have no idea how bad life can get for a registered professional if a service user makes a complaint. 

    Working in the NHS is a whole different thing. There's some good like your pay is highly structured and so is the chain of command so I know I can't be pay discriminated against and if I have a problem I can easily identify who to talk to. The bad thing is it's almost impossible to get fired so if you're a bully or terrible at your job no one cares unless a patient complains. My supervisor is a nurse who is known for being a bully, if you complain people say "oh that's her personality" and "we all just need to understand that's how she is".


    There's policies for everything but enforcement is sporadic. I had a whole HR investigation for calling in sick too much but they were all serious illnesses (one call in was the ambulance service because I was unconscious), I'd hit the "first trigger point". I have a colleague who calls in sick regularly, to the point where others know when she is likely to call in but she has never been approached by HR. 

    They will try to make any issue you have about you instead of tackling the root cause because that would mean moving the bully and often that happens by encouraging them to apply for promoted posts. You'll find the higher up in the chain of command you go the less competent people are. During covid we joked that an NHS manager must be running the show because implementation of everything was shambolic. 

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    Watch yourself if you want employment in the NHS. 

    They'll obviously be nice to service users, you have no idea how bad life can get for a registered professional if a service user makes a complaint. 

    Working in the NHS is a whole different thing. There's some good like your pay is highly structured and so is the chain of command so I know I can't be pay discriminated against and if I have a problem I can easily identify who to talk to. The bad thing is it's almost impossible to get fired so if you're a bully or terrible at your job no one cares unless a patient complains. My supervisor is a nurse who is known for being a bully, if you complain people say "oh that's her personality" and "we all just need to understand that's how she is".


    There's policies for everything but enforcement is sporadic. I had a whole HR investigation for calling in sick too much but they were all serious illnesses (one call in was the ambulance service because I was unconscious), I'd hit the "first trigger point". I have a colleague who calls in sick regularly, to the point where others know when she is likely to call in but she has never been approached by HR. 

    They will try to make any issue you have about you instead of tackling the root cause because that would mean moving the bully and often that happens by encouraging them to apply for promoted posts. You'll find the higher up in the chain of command you go the less competent people are. During covid we joked that an NHS manager must be running the show because implementation of everything was shambolic. 

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