What are the criteria with AS to get DLA?

stranger said:

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Stranger & Intenseworld

That is exactly my point: you cannot expect people to undergo assessments that their disability makes them unable to do, or unablel to do reasonaly or safely.  The same should apply to people who can't manage any assessment because of any disability.  The assessments need to be accessible to the people who need them.

What do you suggest should happen then? Someone shouldn't be able to be on ESA for years and years with no assessment.

I've highlighted the last sentence as I think that it kind of answers the question: I am not suggesting that people should not be assessed (even once diagnosed) and have never written that, let alone that they should go for "years and years" without assessment.  I have been trying to suggest that the assessments should not be of a kind that somebody's disability(ies) prevent them from coping with.  That will inevitably mean assessing people with different disabilities differently.  That is not discrimination: it is making reasonable adjustments for disability, which is something that employers, for a start, are legally obliged to do.

But Autism is a spectrum and many people with it are capable of holding down a full time job. If you exempt someone on the basis of their Autism, you have to exempt everyone from the assessement, else that's discrimination.

Not every Autistic person is rightly eligible for ESA. I can think of at least one person this is true for.

I haven't even mentioned ESA and this is a thread about DLA, which is a very different benefit and can be claimed regadless of whether you are working or how much you are working.  I know very well that there are autistic people who can work full time: I am doing it myself (with adjustments).  

Zem :)

stranger said:

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Stranger & Intenseworld

That is exactly my point: you cannot expect people to undergo assessments that their disability makes them unable to do, or unablel to do reasonaly or safely.  The same should apply to people who can't manage any assessment because of any disability.  The assessments need to be accessible to the people who need them.

What do you suggest should happen then? Someone shouldn't be able to be on ESA for years and years with no assessment.

I've highlighted the last sentence as I think that it kind of answers the question: I am not suggesting that people should not be assessed (even once diagnosed) and have never written that, let alone that they should go for "years and years" without assessment.  I have been trying to suggest that the assessments should not be of a kind that somebody's disability(ies) prevent them from coping with.  That will inevitably mean assessing people with different disabilities differently.  That is not discrimination: it is making reasonable adjustments for disability, which is something that employers, for a start, are legally obliged to do.

But Autism is a spectrum and many people with it are capable of holding down a full time job. If you exempt someone on the basis of their Autism, you have to exempt everyone from the assessement, else that's discrimination.

Not every Autistic person is rightly eligible for ESA. I can think of at least one person this is true for.

I haven't even mentioned ESA and this is a thread about DLA, which is a very different benefit and can be claimed regadless of whether you are working or how much you are working.  I know very well that there are autistic people who can work full time: I am doing it myself (with adjustments).  

Zem :)