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adult autism regression

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I have been struggling lately with Aspergers, I feel I have regressed in many fields of operation and I am seeking information that adults can regress. I have read on the net, that regression can be the caused by stress and mistaken for depression in people with autism.

I know regression forms part of the autism model in childhood, but can it also in adulthood ? or is it just stress and lack of coping mechanisms. I feel like everything I knew or trusted is gone ?

 

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  • Well said Intenseworld,

    There's supposed to be an opportunity to comment with regard to the next review phase on how local authorities are meeting the Autism Act and "Leading Rewarding and Fulfilling Lives". I think responses or a short questionnaire are wanted by early September. Its an opportunity to air these issues.

    I was hoping the NAS Moderators would increase awareness on the Discussion Forum, as who else but the people regularly messaging here have something to say about the continued failure to meet the assurances of the Autism Act. Don't tell me its on the NAS webpages because finding current projects is proving difficult, there being so many things on there with apparently equal weighting.

    This high functioning thing really galls me. Let's face it I'm diagnosed as manageable with good coping strategies and I've managed a career, albeit blighted a fair bit, up to retirement. But it definately wasn't easy and while I appreciate I've been luckier than many, I do think it is wrong to assume that because you managed you somehow imagined the aspergers side effects.

    At the present most local authorities have such a fast turnover (or career rotation) of staff that there aren't the staff around to help people who need help. And some of the appalling failures to give abler kids real education opportunities, such as only sending them to special schools dedicated to non-verbal or learning disabled pupils, because UK society is to mean to give them a chance. In the 50s and 60s people thought to have autism were taken out of the educaytion system and kept in institutions, with nothing to occupy their minds. We've hardly progressed, and some of the scandalous things going on in this country over the treatment of people on the spectrum merits going before the European Court of Human Rights.

    The Autism Act has failed us. 

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  • Well said Intenseworld,

    There's supposed to be an opportunity to comment with regard to the next review phase on how local authorities are meeting the Autism Act and "Leading Rewarding and Fulfilling Lives". I think responses or a short questionnaire are wanted by early September. Its an opportunity to air these issues.

    I was hoping the NAS Moderators would increase awareness on the Discussion Forum, as who else but the people regularly messaging here have something to say about the continued failure to meet the assurances of the Autism Act. Don't tell me its on the NAS webpages because finding current projects is proving difficult, there being so many things on there with apparently equal weighting.

    This high functioning thing really galls me. Let's face it I'm diagnosed as manageable with good coping strategies and I've managed a career, albeit blighted a fair bit, up to retirement. But it definately wasn't easy and while I appreciate I've been luckier than many, I do think it is wrong to assume that because you managed you somehow imagined the aspergers side effects.

    At the present most local authorities have such a fast turnover (or career rotation) of staff that there aren't the staff around to help people who need help. And some of the appalling failures to give abler kids real education opportunities, such as only sending them to special schools dedicated to non-verbal or learning disabled pupils, because UK society is to mean to give them a chance. In the 50s and 60s people thought to have autism were taken out of the educaytion system and kept in institutions, with nothing to occupy their minds. We've hardly progressed, and some of the scandalous things going on in this country over the treatment of people on the spectrum merits going before the European Court of Human Rights.

    The Autism Act has failed us. 

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