How are you treated in the workplace

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I'm treated very badly now that they have found out I don't like to be mocked - so now they do it when they want to have a little fun. They can get away with it because I'm lowest in the hierarchy job-wise.

I feel like that just happened to me with my most recent job! Right after I quit the last job and started a new one, they claimed that I didn't pass the probationary period after working there for just 1 week! I noticed that my other workers there also never really started any conversations with me nor made the directions/expectations clear! I feel like I was just given the evil eye!

Very well, but unfortunately it's a low wage job. My therapist has advised me to stick it out, and I hope it's financially feasible to do so...

At first at work people are friendly but it only takes a couple of conversations before they start to keep a distance. I try to be friendly but there are so many misunderstandings about what has been said or intended. I try hard to show I'm keen to work hard and do well.
Some of them treat me like I'm stupid because it takes a couple of tries for me to learn new tasks. Or if I ask them to repeat the instruction because it sometimes takes me a while to learn a new person's speech intonation enough to understand what they are saying.

Some of them take advantage. In one job I got all the bad shifts no-one else wanted. This temporary job I've been messed about regarding my days off. Instead of getting me to support the permanent staff on busy work days they have given the permanent staff the day off and left me to do the busy days on my own.

I'm afraid I'll spoil any chance of a more permanent position if I don't go to a staff function I've been invited to. I was told "it's in your interests (job-wise) to go along to show you are a friendly person".

Today I got so overloaded I could hardly understand what was being said to me the last couple of hours.

Any job I have ever worked I have always been treated poorly by people, right now even at my current job I am constantly called in the office, one time I got called in the office because I accidentally laughed funny towards a lady at work, she was right there in my face yelling at me and I accidentally laughed it her, because of the PDD-Nos it causes me to laugh for no reason sometimes, I almost had a harassment charge against me but at that time I brought in some paper work for my supervisor about my disability even after bringing in that paperwork I still get bullied around alot and constantly called in the office.

I work retail at a really fashionable store. I've been hiding my asperger's and mental illnesses for years now, so I'm used to pretending I'm completely normal, but my boss is starting to catch on, but I think she thinks I'm just plain stupid.

I have trouble remembering things and I've made a lot of mistakes with the cash register... to be honest, I'm super close to losing my job.
I'm actually horrible with numbers and such, something people say that people with asperger's are good at.

I never intend to inform the new employer, if I get one, about my Aspergers, nor am I going to say anything me having that diagnosis in an interview. I apply for jobs working for people with disabilities. I found out the hard way that just because an agency is a disability civil rights advocacy agency, it doesn't mean it will not mind if you have that disability. I used to work at one of the nation's many Independent Living Centers which are disability rights advocacy agencies and community resource agencies. Their mission statement went like this: "justice and Equality for persons with all disabilities."

Oh sure.


My boss hated people on the spectrum, and she had the audacity to even say so in front of the whole staff describing people with Aspergers as "losers." She should have known better for far more than one reason-that being that the agency did not tolerate intolerance towards disabilities or any certain disabilities. She was extremely arrogant to blurt out her bigoted view of people with disabilities. She was pretty sure that the whole staff feared her enough not to inform anyone official in the state of her stupid indiscretion. She knew I had Aspergers, and she knew I would feel extremely uncomfortable with her comment (which I did) but that did not matter to her. I was her least favorite employee because of the kind of disability I have.

She was an attorney. She should have known better than to say that in front of a number of people who might agree to be my witness if I so chose to file a complaint. She also knew that Kansas Human Rights Commission is five years behind on their investigation of disability discrimination cases because Kansas has so many. No mystery about that. Kansas is a very fascist, anti-labor state that does not accept people that don't come out of the same mold as everyone else. (NTs).

THAT IS JUST DOWNRIGHT ROTTEN AND HORRIBLE!! !

It's just her way of showing us (or "our kind" as she would put it) that there is no place that will accept us "losers", given that a civil & human rights agency doesn't echo the values of diverse disability acceptance. Somebody should tell her that anyone who has to persevere in the face of adversity as we do should be commended for doing so, not chastised. But I doubt she would take it seriously; likely she would make some flippant remark about it like "well, you brought those troubles on yourself, if you just acted normal like everyone else they wouldn't happen"

Too bad you didn't do a surreptitious recording of her diatribe, and then released it to Youtube. Her safety might be in question after that, let alone her job.
Just think, if she or anyone like her ever had a kid with Aspergers, would they vehemently deny it?!? Like "my kid is just faking" or something absurd like that?!?

I'm writing my thesis on this topic.

I'm planning to use a qualitative survey to find out 1) if people with ASD/AS who are working/have worked have the perception that they are treated differently from other employees, 2) if people on the spectrum perform work differently from others (do more work, less work, etc) and 3) if so, WHY do they perform work differently.

This project is in the interest of increasing integration of autistic people into the workforce and increasing fair treatments for neurodiverse workforces.

If anyone is interested in participating in this survey, send me a PM and I'll put your username on a list. The survey will be anonymous. I'm hoping to gather data in the next couple months. All that is needed to participate is either a self-identification of being on the spectrum or a label by others that you are on the spectrum, and some history of paid or non-paid employment.

I'm writing my thesis on this topic.

I'm planning to use a qualitative survey to find out 1) if people with ASD/AS who are working/have worked have the perception that they are treated differently from other employees, 2) if people on the spectrum perform work differently from others (do more work, less work, etc) and 3) if so, WHY do they perform work differently.

This project is in the interest of increasing integration of autistic people into the workforce and increasing fair treatments for neurodiverse workforces.

If anyone is interested in participating in this survey, send me a PM and I'll put your username on a list. The survey will be anonymous. I'm hoping to gather data in the next couple months. All that is needed to participate is either a self-identification of being on the spectrum or a label by others that you are on the spectrum, and some history of paid or non-paid employment.

I did get called a F*$%^ ret*d at a job interview a couple of weeks ago

Homers, that was a BLATANT violation of your civil rights as a person born with a disability you had nothing to do with choosing! It is too bad you did not have any witnesses. They were taking extreme liberties with you. I hope the interviewers find out the real meaning of what goes around, comes around.

I did get called a F*$%^ ret*d at a job interview a couple of weeks ago

Homers, that was a BLATANT violation of your civil rights as a person born with a disability you had nothing to do with choosing! It is too bad you did not have any witnesses. They were taking extreme liberties with you. I hope the interviewers find out the real meaning of what goes around, comes around.

I did get called a F*$%^ ret*d at a job interview a couple of weeks ago

Homers, that was a BLATANT violation of your civil rights as a person born with a disability you had nothing to do with choosing! It is too bad you did not have any witnesses. They were taking extreme liberties with you. I hope the interviewers find out the real meaning of what goes around, comes around.

I actually get a sort of reverence. Back when I first learned about being an Aspie my work was fine with me going to my therapist to learn about it. In my office I'm viewed as the education oriented boss who expects things to be done ethically or I can and will get you in some hot water. I will correct wrong things said and done in a heartbeat with a very clear understanding that its for the purpose of the betterment of the company. In a strange way I'm the most leveled headed but also have the shortest leash for tolerance. In my world, if you can't act with dignity or feel entitled in any way to things you are undeserving of, you're OUT. However, at the same time I'll be the manager employees come to when they want a logical framing of things happening or advice on how to proceed on something. Am I the boss that the employees come to to be chummy with? No.

I wish I had you for a boss but don't want to move out of state other than Missouri or the Kansas City area of either Kansas or Missouri. Most of my past bosses acted like the only purpose I was put on this planet was to bully, harass, and to suffer intentionally invoked emotional distress. How do we tell the bosses of the working world that we Aspies are not their cathartic punching bags?

Legislators won't act in our behalf. Most of us want us gone out of existence, especially the conservatives and Republicans. They see us as useless garbage. If the world were to get rid of the Aspergers gene, there would be no more thinkers outside the box, but then I think too many bosses don't want that even if they ask for people to think outside the box. They rale at us Aspies for desiring structure but they (most bosses) are outside their own comfort zone when someone thinks in a different way than they do so they try to find ways to get us to quit. It's called subjecting us to a hostile environment to get a so-called constructive dismissal, and when we refuse to give them cause, they use their state's employment at will or right to work laws against us as a smokescreen for discrimination.

I am actually treated well by my coworkers and managers. People know that I have some distinct skills so they occasionally seek me out but in general let me do LostInEmulation things.