Workplace coaching for autistic people

What does work-place coaching for Autistic people look like?

Back in 2014, in my first academic job as a researcher, my work computer got updated to Windows 7. With this update, I lost several accessibility features, the most important being able to change the background colour of the Microsoft applications from a harsh white to the aqua blue shade that helped me with reading. I asked IT repeatedly for help for almost six months but didn’t get any. I also worked in an office with two other researchers, and there were frequent phone calls and virtual meetings happening around me.

At this point, I still only had a diagnosis of Dyslexia. I tried and tried to get my work done, doing more and more in the evenings, until eventually my brain gave up and I literally could not make out the shape of letters on a page or screen and could not read at all after a very short time of looking at a book or screen. As someone who got paid to read and write, this was incredibly stressful. I took two weeks off sick and somebody must have recommended I contact Access to Work, but I can’t remember who.