Here's a video I made about The Autism Investor Summit
Here's a video I made about The Autism Investor Summit
I want autism funding to go to better training for medical professionals, such as doctors and nurses, and the police. All of whom do an amazing and worthwhile job but when it comes to autism they know very little and that can have damaging results, leading to unnecessary sectioning and arrests.
I saw a doctor a few years ago who tried treating my autism thinking it was a mental illness and I was detained under section 2 of the mental health act a few months later. I'm not the only one whose experienced this sadly.
I would love for funding to go to training the professionals so in the end they can offer us better and more helpful support and guidance.
I don't know if it would be possible but I live in hope that one day it will be achievable. I want to be social and interact but I do mask and in the past it's made me very ill.
Yes, that’s why autistic communities like this one are so important! If you would like to join another online autistic community, I have recently set up my own called Autopia.
Link below:
Alternatively such groups could be used to discuss and encourage different ways of communicating and socialising so that our autistic way of being is validated whilst also being helpful for non autistic peers.
Absolutely!!! :)
Agreed, masking is not the answer or the right approach with this. We need help with being social and interacting in our own way without the need of masking. I don't know if it would be possible but I live in hope that one day it will be achievable. I want to be social and interact but I do mask and in the past it's made me very ill.
I would love for there to be lessons in being social as well and mastering interacting. This would benefit many of us.
You suggest this, but lessons will not be beneficial if they encourage masking as this is detrimental to the health of our autistic community.
Alternatively such groups could be used to discuss and encourage different ways of communicating and socialising so that our autistic way of being is validated whilst also being helpful for non autistic peers.
We have our own autistic socialising style including but not limited to: info dumping, parallel play/sharing space, stimming to communicate, naturally preferring in depth discussions over small talk, honest and direct communication, emphasis on content of our words as opposed to facial expressions….
We don’t need to be taught ‘social skills’!
If you would like to explore this further you may want to read information on the Double Empathy Problem.
More support would be nice. At the moment there's more less none, especially for autistic adults. Talking therapies would be especially good I think as it's something many of us would benefit from.
I would love for there to be lessons in being social as well and mastering interacting. This would benefit many of us.
I would see funding go to
•ways for AS peeps to gather and get to know each other, feel validated personally.
•support structures for reasonable accommodation mandated and in place at all learning institutions.
•a data base that pairs super powers, (like a non speaker who can type 125 WPM with a steal-trap memory) can be pooled and opportunities extended.
•work share space designed for AS peeps where they can do some work that fulfills them in an accommodating environment.
•more efforts towards independent living spaces with a state funded support structure for such.
Totally agreed
I mean selfishly I would say towards reducing the social isolation of interlectually able autistic adults. I apreciate there are many other good, arguably more worthy, causes. But we are the cinderelas of the autism services world. We are basicly treated as if we are invisable.
Since that describes pretty much 90% (or greater) of the people I've met or observed, I for one am very, very, glad that we live in a (mosty) gun free society.
As am I.
I picked up my familiarity in a job I had once.
To be honest, guns are only scary when partnered with ammunition, and held by untrained, scared or stupid people.
Since that describes pretty much 90% (or greater) of the people I've met or observed, I for one am very, very, glad that we live in a (mosty) gun free society.
But there also equally must be far greater support for autistic adults, especially if diagnosed later in life - all too often, the focus is almost exclusively focused on children rather than autistic adults who are almost totally ignored - we are entering a very serious situation where we have an ageing autistic adult population with very limited if any support and this is set to become much more serious in the coming years
None of those parameters were specified in the original question...
Yes I get that, I just wondered.
And you speak like someone who has never held their own submachine gun, if you had, you'd know!
I haven’t and just thinking about it is quite a dangerous and scary possibility.
None of those parameters were specified in the original question...
And you speak like someone who has never held their own submachine gun, if you had, you'd know!
Ok then, but how would that improve our autistic lives and community wellbeing?
Why not? ;c}
