Well I certainly was not impressed by the programme - I dont think it went into much detail about the diversity of the Autism Spectrum at all and the different types of people it can affect and in what different ways - and it did not explain the compexities of it - To my mind it gave the viewers the old sterotypical insight of people on the Autistic spectrum as looking and behaving differently to the norm' - whatever that is
There are many people out there, like myself, who have worked all their lives and managed to have relationships and bought houses etc. I am not saying it has been easy - very very difficult in fact and getting harder the older I get - I am 58, but no one would know to look at me that I am an Aspergian, with Dyslexia Dyscaluli, Dyspraxia and ADHD. When I tell people that I have these problems they say the same.
Well I certainly was not impressed by the programme - I dont think it went into much detail about the diversity of the Autism Spectrum at all and the different types of people it can affect and in what different ways - and it did not explain the compexities of it - To my mind it gave the viewers the old sterotypical insight of people on the Autistic spectrum as looking and behaving differently to the norm' - whatever that is
There are many people out there, like myself, who have worked all their lives and managed to have relationships and bought houses etc. I am not saying it has been easy - very very difficult in fact and getting harder the older I get - I am 58, but no one would know to look at me that I am an Aspergian, with Dyslexia Dyscaluli, Dyspraxia and ADHD. When I tell people that I have these problems they say the same.
