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Adults with "mild" autism can have problems equal to those with severe autism (study)

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http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2011/people-with-milder-forms-of-autism-struggle-as-adults

"Contrary to popular assumption, people diagnosed with so-called mild forms of autism don’t fare any better in life than those with severe forms of the disorder. That’s the conclusion of a new study that suggests that even individuals with normal intelligence and language abilities struggle to fit into society because of their social and communication problems."

"The implication of our findings is that the consequences of having an autism spectrum disorder with profound difficulties in communication skills and social impairment can’t be compensated for by either high intellectual level or normal language function,” says lead investigator Anne Myhre, associate professor of mental health and addiction at the University of Oslo in Norway."

Basically the article says that without support and interventions, outcomes are just as severe as if the individuals had more a more severe form of autism.  Intelligence means that people are often not given the support and this is the consequence.

Let that be a lesson to all local authorities, schools, CAMHS and central government.

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  • I'm a  PhD in Computer Science, with mild Asperger's recently diagnosed in mid life; no sensitivity problems, just what would have be known in the good'ol days a bit of an eccentric geek. My communications skills are far from brilliant, but I compensate as far as I can by avoiding such situations. 

    I moved into a major, world class Civil Service laboratory to do research but unbenknowst    to me the lab was changing to a more 'customer focussed role', or put simply it was doing less research, and moving to a position where it was more expected to manage research requirements which had been placed with industrial or academic partnering organisations.

    This change is vastly beneficial to the more socially adept NT world, and though our chief executive has suppporting diversity as his number two concern for the lab's business the outlook for anyone on the spectrum is not good. I am incredibly unlikely to advance career wise, since though I have very good technical skills I do not match well as against the Civil Service Competency Framework www.civilservice.gov.uk/.../preparing-for-the-new-civil-service-competency-framework, which are biased against anyone one the spectrum esp. if you take language liteally, for example one of the comptencies is Delivering At Pace, and another one difficult even for those who language skils are good Seeing The Big Picture.

    My favorite comment from my team leader is "It's now more important that we read body language than do research"

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  • I'm a  PhD in Computer Science, with mild Asperger's recently diagnosed in mid life; no sensitivity problems, just what would have be known in the good'ol days a bit of an eccentric geek. My communications skills are far from brilliant, but I compensate as far as I can by avoiding such situations. 

    I moved into a major, world class Civil Service laboratory to do research but unbenknowst    to me the lab was changing to a more 'customer focussed role', or put simply it was doing less research, and moving to a position where it was more expected to manage research requirements which had been placed with industrial or academic partnering organisations.

    This change is vastly beneficial to the more socially adept NT world, and though our chief executive has suppporting diversity as his number two concern for the lab's business the outlook for anyone on the spectrum is not good. I am incredibly unlikely to advance career wise, since though I have very good technical skills I do not match well as against the Civil Service Competency Framework www.civilservice.gov.uk/.../preparing-for-the-new-civil-service-competency-framework, which are biased against anyone one the spectrum esp. if you take language liteally, for example one of the comptencies is Delivering At Pace, and another one difficult even for those who language skils are good Seeing The Big Picture.

    My favorite comment from my team leader is "It's now more important that we read body language than do research"

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