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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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  • It reflects a wider sickness across industry in this country. Thirty years ago we had ten year plus research plans and were thinking ahead to the next generation of whatever technology we were in.

    The trouble with ten year plans is that they were funded from whatever products we produced, as part of the cost. As one of our main customers was the British Government they objected to the investment inclusion in costs, on the grounds in part that it made us less competitive (except our competitors did it and didn't suffer)

    So the plan terms were steadily reduced. We moved from what used to be called "cost plus" to "fixed price", where a price was agreed and you stuck to it. Though why projects still went vastly over cost and got time delayed was the bureaucrats taking their cut - they never went fixed price (that's the other problem with Britain now - too many greedy fat cats) 

    Over that time scale Britain lost the edge to stay out front, and we can never catch up. We now buy foreign products, mostly American, and just assemble, and do pituously banale bits of value added. We've become a service nation not a technology leader.

    So what we now do is "service" which means exactly what you describe, no real research at all (we are so far behind now there's no point), and we are now talk show, public relations, latterday spivs.

    At the same time the backroom boy has become almost extinct. In the days of long term research strategies there was always room for an eccentric working away on his own in a little room. That has been steadily eroded, until now everyone works in open plan offices with strip lighting and rubbish noisy air conditioning and heavyt emphasis on being social.

    Also fixed price put an end to specialism. People had to be multi-skilled team workers taking on different roles on the "spur of the moment" and jobs for highly specialised individuals vanished.

    Interesting given the Government has just launched Disability Confident that the Civil Service is now deciding to ignore disability in the way you describe. Public schoolboys hey....

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  • It reflects a wider sickness across industry in this country. Thirty years ago we had ten year plus research plans and were thinking ahead to the next generation of whatever technology we were in.

    The trouble with ten year plans is that they were funded from whatever products we produced, as part of the cost. As one of our main customers was the British Government they objected to the investment inclusion in costs, on the grounds in part that it made us less competitive (except our competitors did it and didn't suffer)

    So the plan terms were steadily reduced. We moved from what used to be called "cost plus" to "fixed price", where a price was agreed and you stuck to it. Though why projects still went vastly over cost and got time delayed was the bureaucrats taking their cut - they never went fixed price (that's the other problem with Britain now - too many greedy fat cats) 

    Over that time scale Britain lost the edge to stay out front, and we can never catch up. We now buy foreign products, mostly American, and just assemble, and do pituously banale bits of value added. We've become a service nation not a technology leader.

    So what we now do is "service" which means exactly what you describe, no real research at all (we are so far behind now there's no point), and we are now talk show, public relations, latterday spivs.

    At the same time the backroom boy has become almost extinct. In the days of long term research strategies there was always room for an eccentric working away on his own in a little room. That has been steadily eroded, until now everyone works in open plan offices with strip lighting and rubbish noisy air conditioning and heavyt emphasis on being social.

    Also fixed price put an end to specialism. People had to be multi-skilled team workers taking on different roles on the "spur of the moment" and jobs for highly specialised individuals vanished.

    Interesting given the Government has just launched Disability Confident that the Civil Service is now deciding to ignore disability in the way you describe. Public schoolboys hey....

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