Well, after much thought I’ve handed my diagnosis letter in to work. Let’s see what happens!
I’m expecting an invite for a ‘lovely’ chat with OCC health, and maybe something from HR… The joys of working in a large company. Other than that, I don’t expect much too change, at last that’s what I hope for.
This feels both momentous and an anticlimax.
What do I expect to happen from this? Not much, immediately other than an amount of ‘process’.
I don’t currently need adjustments and am reasonably good at my job, so don’t have major worries right now. However, things can change. I may be given a task that would be easy for an NT, but very difficult for me to do. This could affect my performance, with potential negative consequences over several years. Now the company knows, we can work something out to mutual benefit, otherwise I’d be in trouble.
To say I want to weaponise my diagnosis would be unfair, but if I can fairly use it to help me exist in an NT corporate environment, where otherwise I’d have difficulties, then I think I’m taking the sensible approach. Time will tell. In the UK, compared to perhaps other less civilised places, we have a degree of legal protection, but it is a two way street.
What triggered or preceded it?