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My partner has just recieved her autism diagnosis, she has requested her GP to sign a council letter confirming that Autism is an SMI so she can get the SMI discount. The GP has stated it is not an SMI and refuses to sign? We live in Wales.

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  • If your partner has just been diagnosed she probably wouldn't qualify. Someone who has made it to adulthood and managed to be in a healthy relationship is not on the end of the spectrum that would be classed as "Severely Mentally Impaired". People who are SMI would be the type of autism where they'll never live independently or need huge input from external agencies to achieve that goal. 

    My aunt is SMI end of autism, she never finished primary school (apparently this was fine for disabled children in the 50s), can't read more than 3 letter words, can't count, has no concept of money, went to a college for people with severe disabilities and day centres with learning programmes and she never achieved making tea independently.

    She now lives in an assisted living facility with carers and has a social worker. Frankly if the social worker phoned me and told me she was in a relationship with someone capable of posting on an Internet forum I'd be tearing down walls because it would clearly be inappropriate.

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