Why is Autism considerd a disorder?

Even in the mental health parts of the NHS, which is already not equipped to deal with mental health and hidden Disability issues and needs its own separate body, where there is already way too much wastage and inefficiency in the NHS that cannot be fixed by privatisation and where fixing that wastage and inefficiency could release the needed funding, where in its current state, throwing more money at the problem is not going to solve the deep-rooted problems in the NHS or any separate body, where many simple changes do not even require additional funding, that refusal to understand and change is leading to an ultimately lack of political will to reform and vice versa, a vicious circle - there is both a failure and refusal to take on board the latest research, findings and trends on autism and other hidden disabilities - many autism and other charities in this area have done so but are curtailed in their work and the services that they can offer due to lack of funding - it is imperative and of fundamental importance that a new body dealing with mental health and hidden disability issues is formed and right from the start, reform must include learning from the mistakes of the NHS without applying or transferring those mistakes over to the new body and applying that knowledge and experience to ensure that things are done properly this time around - a crucial part of this must be to have people who are already working in and for autism and hidden disability charities placed in charge in key positions in this new body and other staff from that body, those vacancies must only be filled by those working for autism charities - an even better solution would be to give additional funding to autism charities to allow them to expand their work as the current mindset in the NHS is all wrong - a key part of this is that all staff would have a basic legal requirement to undertake regular training at least every 6 months - many autism charities rely on volunteers which limits their ability to offer the kind of services that they could provide 

Even in the mental health parts of the NHS, which is already not equipped to deal with mental health and hidden Disability issues and needs its own separate body, where there is already way too much wastage and inefficiency in the NHS that cannot be fixed by privatisation and where fixing that wastage and inefficiency could release the needed funding, where in its current state, throwing more money at the problem is not going to solve the deep-rooted problems in the NHS or any separate body, where many simple changes do not even require additional funding, that refusal to understand and change is leading to an ultimately lack of political will to reform and vice versa, a vicious circle - there is both a failure and refusal to take on board the latest research, findings and trends on autism and other hidden disabilities - many autism and other charities in this area have done so but are curtailed in their work and the services that they can offer due to lack of funding - it is imperative and of fundamental importance that a new body dealing with mental health and hidden disability issues is formed and right from the start, reform must include learning from the mistakes of the NHS without applying or transferring those mistakes over to the new body and applying that knowledge and experience to ensure that things are done properly this time around - a crucial part of this must be to have people who are already working in and for autism and hidden disability charities placed in charge in key positions in this new body and other staff from that body, those vacancies must only be filled by those working for autism charities - an even better solution would be to give additional funding to autism charities to allow them to expand their work as the current mindset in the NHS is all wrong - a key part of this is that all staff would have a basic legal requirement to undertake regular training at least every 6 months - many autism charities rely on volunteers which limits their ability to offer the kind of services that they could provide