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Housing and noise regulations for people with autism, can the NAS please respond?

Hope

Flats are often noisy, whereas houses are more likely to be quiet. Having grown up in a house along a very quiet residential road, I have always taken quietude at night for granted. I think I have inherited sensitive hearing from my mum, although she is not on the spectrum. As a family, we are introverted, and like an undisturbed night of sleep. I have grown up with fairly quiet neighbours, but sound insulation is good at my parent's home, even when we used to live in an ex council house. Night time noise has never been an issue before, but it is for me now, at my flat.

I think I am more sensitive to noise than so called 'normal' people because of my genetics, ie aspergers. Surely Councils should take our needs into consideration? Why can't they build special autism housing, that is to say, detatched houses in really quiet locations, with no traffic passing through? I wish. More realistically, what are my rights in this situation? What can I do?

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  • Happy days quote "The Autism Act is a good piece of legislation, but I wonder how much teeth it has? I know that the Act is supposed to make the public sector aware of the needs of people with autism/aspergers, but I don't know how I could benefit from it?"

    The act is a framework like any bill, it has to be tested in court to establish the teeth as you put it, that involves court test cases to set presidences of law, HAPPY DAYS V NAS, so the problem is ? who is going to enforce the act via the courts, the NAS should be the advocate, but are looking the other way, whistling nothing to do with us.

    So you have a catch 22, looks go on paper, but the councils etc, will do the minimum especially under the current economical climate. Autistic people are emotional screwed so they can't challenge a court, so unless the parents or guardians challenge the situation this act will be worthless. The NAS should be grouping test cases together and being the advocate for the condition. Political this will not happen because they are just a vehicle of the state, which has hijack the autistic community with a state treasure chest to hush people off.

    The fact this act came from a MP's private members bill, this may be a reason why, so the state can be challenged via the courts because obvious there is a vulnerable gap which is not getting filled by the NAS and other state instititions.  

     

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  • Happy days quote "The Autism Act is a good piece of legislation, but I wonder how much teeth it has? I know that the Act is supposed to make the public sector aware of the needs of people with autism/aspergers, but I don't know how I could benefit from it?"

    The act is a framework like any bill, it has to be tested in court to establish the teeth as you put it, that involves court test cases to set presidences of law, HAPPY DAYS V NAS, so the problem is ? who is going to enforce the act via the courts, the NAS should be the advocate, but are looking the other way, whistling nothing to do with us.

    So you have a catch 22, looks go on paper, but the councils etc, will do the minimum especially under the current economical climate. Autistic people are emotional screwed so they can't challenge a court, so unless the parents or guardians challenge the situation this act will be worthless. The NAS should be grouping test cases together and being the advocate for the condition. Political this will not happen because they are just a vehicle of the state, which has hijack the autistic community with a state treasure chest to hush people off.

    The fact this act came from a MP's private members bill, this may be a reason why, so the state can be challenged via the courts because obvious there is a vulnerable gap which is not getting filled by the NAS and other state instititions.  

     

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