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Opinions on the levels of ASD?

appiejoolover

Hello, I was wondering about the different levels of autism and what autistic people think about them. I’ve noticed there’s a bit of a split in the community but there’s a majority of people who think the levels are confusing and often inaccurate. However some people find them useful for accessing support. I personally feel like it’s a fault within other people (not necessarily specific individuals but society) that autistic people need a diagnosis of level 2 or 3 asd to access the support they need. All autistic people deserve and should be able to access the support they need, but the levels can determine/aid with that, and level 1 autistics can find it harder to access support if their autism is seen as “milder”. What are your thoughts? 

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  • It's difficult. Ideally everyone should get everything they need.

    But, all non-self-funded support has to be paid for by taxpayers.

    There are limited funds. If this has more funds, what gets less? Or are you happy to pay more tax or see vat go up etc.

    It's fine to have discussions about priorities. You can also question whether the government spends our money wisely (it is not the governments money, no matter what some may think). But these are subjective and everyone will have a different answer.

    Besides some accomodations and self understanding, what additional help do you think should be provided? There is a limit to how much therapy can be made available. And yes it is unfair that some have the ability to do stuff privately, but that also reduces demand on public provision.

    You could question more broadly what is going wrong in society generally that is leading to such high demands across the board for mental health services. But this is a bigger item.

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  • It's difficult. Ideally everyone should get everything they need.

    But, all non-self-funded support has to be paid for by taxpayers.

    There are limited funds. If this has more funds, what gets less? Or are you happy to pay more tax or see vat go up etc.

    It's fine to have discussions about priorities. You can also question whether the government spends our money wisely (it is not the governments money, no matter what some may think). But these are subjective and everyone will have a different answer.

    Besides some accomodations and self understanding, what additional help do you think should be provided? There is a limit to how much therapy can be made available. And yes it is unfair that some have the ability to do stuff privately, but that also reduces demand on public provision.

    You could question more broadly what is going wrong in society generally that is leading to such high demands across the board for mental health services. But this is a bigger item.

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