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Are the DWP and government trying to kill us all off?

Rip Van Wrinkle

... drive us to suicide even. Even Hitler was more honest how he felt about the disabled and minorities. Have big meltdown about the situation..... please excuse me. 

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  • Unfortunately there's not a lot of understanding or awareness about the realities of autism for people living with it. Most especially the fact that if something happens that's upsetting or unfair/untrue, we have bigger problems putting it aside or getting over it until it's resolved. I don't know if you are dealing with the DWP re benefit or assessments but my experience of those basically taught me that the assessments and reviews tend to be riddled with errors and there's nothing you can do about it except wait for tribunal. For me it was a year and even though I got my award, I didn't get points for everything I need support with because ultimately people have preconceptions and no amount of discussion can shift them from thinking they know better than you what your life is like. I also genuinely don't believe anyone would get through an assessment faking autism if the assessors were trained in autism, because anyone playing to the stereotypes without exception would obviously stand out as suspicious. Real autistic people have varied needs. We're not robots.

    But it is also partly for us to try and get out there what autism is like in terms of reality because we all have a slightly different form of it and we need to make people understand that so that changes happen. Definitely try and get in touch with any local autism charities or MIND if you can, even going to the CAB might help although some of their advice to us turned out not to be accurate in the tribunal so don't rely on it 100%. It might also be a good idea to send an email to your MP. I know some MPs are actively trying to get things improved, so the more voices from real people they get the better.

    As for figuring out NT - I don't like the term neurotypical. It's easy to see a line between us and them when the DWP are giving you stress, but real people are nuanced whether they have ASD or not.

    Hope you feel better :)

  • in reply to Ringorin
    Ringorin said:
    As for figuring out NT - I don't like the term neurotypical. It's easy to see a line between us and them when the DWP are giving you stress, but real people are nuanced whether they have ASD or not.

    I like your way of thinking. I had a very stressful time after being diagnosed, a bit of an identity crisis. When I first came across the whole neurotypical/neurodiverse thing I thought about it for a while and just thought no. It's a scary world when you are conditioned to think 99% of the world is the "other".

    The people who are the "problem" are the people who are the "problem" in my mind. NT or not. Sometimes I see and hear stuff and if you replaced NT with a race, gender or sexual orientation it would be frowned upon.

    Yes, NT's are classified as different but there are lots of them and as you say there is nuance in everyone. There are also lots of levels of compassion and common ground. 

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