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what is the term complex autism used for

meowmeow

on residential services and units they use complex autism and it's not an official diagnostic term. what is the difenition for it. its translated as level 3 on some things and thats not the levels is not used in the uk. and theres one it goes back to 2005 the difference for complex and essential autism ive not heard of these terms either.

what is the defenition for it and why and who uses it. is it when services use it for high care like in institution care. its not an official thing.

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  • in reply to meowmeow

    I agree - challenging for whom and why? The autism professionals who use PBS need to consult more with the autistic community. We need to agree on appropriate language and terminology for behaviours. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    pbs for challenging behaviours here i don't like how they they call it that. they punish distress and name all things they say is wrong with me. it doesn't support people or help them. i don't like deficit based either because of how they treat autism this way

  • in reply to meowmeow

    I have looked at the site a few times over the last year and it looks to me that it is AI driven. The website was formed out of a tech startup company.

    The website promotes ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis), which is a controversial behaviour based system that was designed to decrease autistic children’s ‘problem’ behaviours, and increase their non-typical behaviours. Although ABA is used in various parts of the world, it is condemned by many autistic people and neuro-affirming professionals. I know that they have said they are using AI to transform ABA.

    Personally, I avoid the site as I don’t like how they consider autism to be a deficit. I wouldn’t like being told my autistic behaviours are a problem that need fixed and I wouldn’t want to be made to act in a way that wasn’t natural for me.