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 o