Hi all
im hoping for some advice as I have searched high and low on the internet for where I stand on this.
I was diagnosed with autism in December and have made my current employer aware of this. We are currently in the middle of a very stressful merger at work and the pressure has been piled on top of me. I’m senior level and this week has been by far the worst week to the point I was crying every day.
Work is chaotic at the moment due to redundancies, lack of company structure or guidance and just a daily onslaught of work that has no structure or clear goals. I have an official report line but I am mainly working for someone else in the business and I’m not sure they have been made aware of my autism. I cannot deal with the mess and chaos, my brain can’t make sense if it all and I’m just shutting down. Home is suffering too as I can’t stand any noise, just my children talking makes me want to scream and hide. My poor husband is still getting his head round my diagnosis and is struggling to know what to do.
I feel like I’m drowning and I’m exhausted due to the constant masking. I am being asked to do things that I am very uncomfortable with and my stress and anxiety is at an all time high. I’m reaching burnout, which I’m frustrated about, as I have been trying really hard to put things in place to manage this as much as possible.
I don’t want to go into work tomorrow, just writing this and putting it on ‘paper’ is making me cry.
Where do I stand legally if I contact my HR team to explain I have hit autistic burnout? Will they let me have time off to reset or do I have no rights? I’m so lost as to what to do.