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Adult Aspergers, why the focus only on those with learning disabilities

DaisyGirl

I have noticed that almost all services for adults with autism/Asperger's is tailored only for those with learning disabilities. In fact it seems that in many ways the knowledge of autism is almost all about people with additional learning disabilities. Why is this?

Almost always when adults with autism are on the TV they also have learning disabilities? All the support is about learning disabilities. It is as if so called experts do not actually know what autism is, and that people can be very badly affected by their autism but also highly intelligent. All the literature points out that people with autism can be highly intelligent but suffer a great deal due to their autism but this is not being reflected in the way autism is being portrayed or in the support available.

I feel like this is getting worse. How can we change this?

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    I was lucky to have a more suitable job (albeit fixed-term) to go to at the time, so resigned (having reached the point of throwing up pure acid in the street – I think I'd have got an ulcer and/or breakdown if I'd stayed). But it was the first secure job I'd ever had: though it wasn't right for me, i'd jumped at it and taken it when I shouldn't, out of necessity. The line manager told me I came across as bossy, laughed too loud, and "needed training in self-awareness". I went for CBT counselling because of the anxiety I was suffering. (Didn't help that my mother was terminally ill at the time, either.) I wasn't the first or last of her casualties: my successor didn't survive the probationary period, either. But she's been in post for years, while there's a rapid turnover of subordinates.

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    Former Member

    I was lucky to have a more suitable job (albeit fixed-term) to go to at the time, so resigned (having reached the point of throwing up pure acid in the street – I think I'd have got an ulcer and/or breakdown if I'd stayed). But it was the first secure job I'd ever had: though it wasn't right for me, i'd jumped at it and taken it when I shouldn't, out of necessity. The line manager told me I came across as bossy, laughed too loud, and "needed training in self-awareness". I went for CBT counselling because of the anxiety I was suffering. (Didn't help that my mother was terminally ill at the time, either.) I wasn't the first or last of her casualties: my successor didn't survive the probationary period, either. But she's been in post for years, while there's a rapid turnover of subordinates.

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