[QUOTE=Imnotaturtle;6026463]Has anyone experienced hatefulness at work just because of who you are? Specifically, after co workers realize that you are on the spectrum.. as if you are some how lesser? Although, most of them have a list of issues that could and should be addressed but never is...

I love my job but I find myself jumping BC people dislike me and I tend to be pushed out or bullied. I work hard, smile, I try to be friendly and I'm very polite. I'm just more introverted than most. I don't behave according to the 'culture' but its not BC I'm autistic its BC I don't believe in adapting for others...which is apparently breaking social rules.

Like, darn, I am who I am and apparently that's some how wrong....

I guess the most frustrating part is that it takes a lot of energy to function normally (having to deal with paranoia and constant aniexty) and people make it nearly impossible just to GI to work and be content.[/QUpeople

I completely understand how you feel. I have a nephew who is autism. I used to work with someone at my previous job who had autism. There were times that my boss had trouble understanding something about my coworker. My previous boss had a habit of bullying people and always disguise it has a joke until one day it had back fired on my boss and he had no idea what had happen. He thought he could take advantage of someone who had autism until he realized he couldn't do the kind of things he did to me with my coworker. I was once ask why I didn't react the way my coworker react even though I have a disability myself. My boss would deliberately knock things down of knock things out of people hands and make fun people regardless of whether or not that person had a disability. But he really made it difficult for the person who has a disability and always tried to laugh it off as a disguise joke. Everyone who was not friend with him hate working with him.