Hi all,
I am new here. I’m recently diagnosed in my late 20s. I have always suspected autism, although why it wasn’t picked up before I don’t know. there have been many significant points in my life.
- special interests
-communication difficulties
- problems at school.
I have told very few people about my diagnosis since I feel so alone. I don’t have many people in my life and never have, I have very little family too. Despite this I have always tried, I always help people, and look after people, the people I do I have in my life are awesome. I have a good education and have a masters degree, sadly my life has not always been so easy though.
I told my work place a few months ago, and they have not been accommodating at all. The past year I have been subjected to so many meetings about all sorts - no one else gets these.
I have overheard that they think I’m just dramatic about things.
They say asking for clarity sometimes is handholding, but there have been times where I have done something and it’s been wrong. They say they value people “who just get on with it.” Last year I was out on a job and I received some pretty nasty abuse, I came back to the office was just abit upset, I was told that “it’s just part of the job sometimes.” Yet the other week, I was told “it’s like I don’t care sometimes.” Yet I always get good feedback, apparently if I am not on a job, people are always asking where I am.
Yet I feel like my days in the job I love are numbered.
Work are constantly talking about my outside activities, and name calling my friends. I have one friend an older guy who has become rather significant in my life, he is like a dad to me. (Mine sadly passed away a few years ago due to cancer and other complications). They don’t know how close we are but they are always saying that he is such a bad person, and a bad infuluence. He’s someone that matters so much to me, and I feel so conflicted. He’s not a bad person at all. We talk on the phone a few times a week and see each other a couple nights a weeks, and he always likes to make sure I am okay. (They don’t know this.)
