To tell or not to tell....

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I would never tell my place of employment. At my former job, we were MANDATED to fill out this form that would tell our employer about any disabilities we had - and Autism was listed as a disability. What bothered me was several times in the form it said that the information given would never be used against you and that your job would never be in jeopardy. TRANSLATION: THE INFORMATION GIVEN WOULD AT SOMETIME BE USED AGAINST YOU AND YOUR JOB WOULD BE IN JEOPARDY.

You mean telling you're on the spectrum in a job interview, job application form or to co-workers? Bad move! Don't!

I didn't tell them and make a big deal out of it, but I do wear an autism medical alert ID, which I'm pretty sure my new employer saw. I know what hiding it can do to me. If I try to pretend not to be autistic, and others expect me to be neurotypical = recipe for disaster. I end up in dangerous situations that turn nasty, just because without being aware it's autism, people interpret it as something else and blame me. If they sack me for being autistic, then it was not a good situation for me, as an autistic person, to be in in the first place.