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the 15% in full time emplyment

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Reading the news item on the website about the Queen's Speech, with reference to the Full Employment and Welfare Benefits Bill, there is again that reference to only 15% with autism in full time work.

Figures like that usually move up and down a bit over the years, and it has certainly been a figure in circulation for at least ten years.

How was it obtained? Was it a survey of NAS members? Or was it a national survey by an organisation independent of NAS? Was it obtained by the Department of Work and Pensions?

What does it mean, beyond what it says? How was the in-work population defined, given a lot of people on the spectrum, who are in work,  aren't necessarily easily identified to be included.

The context of this is people whom the government perceives can work. Their notion of who has autism and their notion of work is quite critical.

I don't feel this unchanging 15% figure is doing us any good.

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  • Yea i initially had a similar reaction, Just because i finished school and got into uni, even though id missed nearly a third of classes due to the so-called stress fever caused by me being unable to cope with the day to day school life, and i never did finish either of the uni courses, and the fact i got a job, even though i work only about 10-20 hours a week max(and often not even that), as i cant cope with full time the initial reaction was if i were autistic, idve never have neither finished school nor be able to have a job of any shape or form. !!!! ASD in itself does not mean you gotta have learnig disabilities or be somekinda dimwit!! Luckily they still let me go through with it and after completing half the assesment was told they dont even need me to finish them as am clearly well on the spectrum, lol Smile

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  • Yea i initially had a similar reaction, Just because i finished school and got into uni, even though id missed nearly a third of classes due to the so-called stress fever caused by me being unable to cope with the day to day school life, and i never did finish either of the uni courses, and the fact i got a job, even though i work only about 10-20 hours a week max(and often not even that), as i cant cope with full time the initial reaction was if i were autistic, idve never have neither finished school nor be able to have a job of any shape or form. !!!! ASD in itself does not mean you gotta have learnig disabilities or be somekinda dimwit!! Luckily they still let me go through with it and after completing half the assesment was told they dont even need me to finish them as am clearly well on the spectrum, lol Smile

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