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Professor Precise-a-bug

I am A very new member of the community, only just being told I am autistic at age 67.

Without boring everyone with the whole story, I have recently been kicked off a community project steering committee on account of my autistic behaviour. I was described as disruptive and challenging. Separately, I have been denied membership of a local sports club due to difficulties that arose during lockdown where my challenging autistic behaviour of created friction.

I do not see that I should have to put up with such discrimination. So, my question is, can someone point me in the direction of any court cases where an employer has been found to breach the Equalities Act 2010 regarding someone’s autism?

  • thank you everyone who has replied. 

    I am happy to confess that since learning that I am probably well up the ASD scale it has given me a way to think about how I behave differently to "the other lot". I accept I am challenging to many and .i make people feel uncomfortable. I am not very good at sensing what is a joke or a serious comment in conversation. And .i have a tendency to excess emotion when confronted.All of which is from my side

    But what I am also mindful of is that organisations have to comply with legislation. They should have policies and procedures in place to ensure they are not in breach of any relevant regulations. To Witt, all new buildings for public use have to be wheelchair accessible and there are whole books on standards. Yet at no point was there any attempt by either organisation that has harmed me to instigate any form of equalities policy. It is the choice to not have any policy that is at fault.

  • I can sympathise with this, although my situation was with an ex friend of mine. They had aspergers and were critisisng every little mistake I made, and always pushing self improvement on me. In the end I snapped and called them a failure and worthless, told them their girlfriend was going to leave them and called them useless. I regret doingb as I was very close to this person, but enough was enough. There isnt a day that goes by that I dont regret what I did. I even asked them to stop pushing self improvement on me, but they refused. This person was masking and trying to fit in, very insecure about themselves and pushed that insecurity on me. The bottom line is that some people just wont listen.