I have always been taught to be honest in life, that it is the best course of action always.
I have high functioning autism, so it's just my social skills that are lacking, but I am completely capable of jobs.
But my employment coach told me that I shouldn't tell my interviewers about my ASD. But I thought that I should be honest because it would tell them more about me and explain why my social skills are poor. And also, if they don't want to hire someone with autism, that is an exclusionary workplace that I wouldn't be appreciated in anyway.
So I never would tell them. But I never got the jobs anyway. Hundreds of job applications and 40+ interviews over the years. I have a bachelor and hundreds of hours of volunteer experience.
You know how people with autism are vastly overrepresented in unemployment stats? Yeah, you're looking at one of them.
So I thought maybe I shouldn't listen to my coach, and tell interviewers about my ASD. Maybe they would appreciate my honesty, or maybe they have quotas for disabled demographics. I don't really have anything to lose, as no one will hire me anyway?
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