Call for workplaces to adapt amid reluctance by autistic employees to share diagnosis
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The social enterprise, whose IT consultants are all autistic, has revealed that cited barriers to disclosure include 40 per cent of autistic people in employment not feeling ready to tell people in the workplace , a third concerned about being treated adversely, and 7 per cent having had a previous negative experience of disclosing.
Auticon added that less than half of autistic people in employment said they had spoken about their condition to any other colleagues beyond the HR department or their line manager.
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