My campaign - can you help please?

Hi just to let you know that I am campaigning for help for adults with Aspbergers. I'm going to write a letter to the health secretary, and also putting a petition together.

Many people with Asperger's fall between the cracks, and here is why we find getting any support is 'non existent!'

Autism is neither a learning disability, nor a mental health problem. This has led to autistic adults falling between the two services:


Learning disability teams refuse to become involved where someone’s IQ is too high – it needs to be below 69 to qualify for a service – while mental health teams turn these individuals away because they don’t fulfil their 'criteria' either!


Some people with autism will have an accompanying learning disability, or mental health problem which may qualify them for a service. Although this will generally be for the accompanying disability, and not for the problems associated with autism. As a result, many adults are left to cope alone!


Are we in the 21st century, or the 12th!


Many Asperger's people are badly bullied at school because we are classed as 'different', and written off by teachers as a troublemaker! Rage


Some (not all) people know little about autism, and there is no active support. some of these so called experts claim to know, but some just haven't a bloody clue. A lot of the time we don’t tick any of their boxes.


Professionals can’t understand that some of us can’t cook a meal but could write a report on the Russian revolution,


This is a sad way of the world that many autistic adults are living in, and I want to change that.

Will you join me?

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