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NAS does it again

electra

I am applying for help through Access to Work. They have agreed that I can have a workplace assessment from the NAS.

So far so good, but the NAS leaflet I am supposed to give my employer talks about autism spectrum disorder. In huge letters. I'm autistic, I don't have a disorder. Even the government doesn't use the term in its Autism Strategy and our council doesn't use it either.

If I give this information to my employer it will further downgrade my abilties in their eyes. I will feel demeaned and compromised. I know the assessment will be done by someone who regards me as having a disorder.

 NAS, please stop doing this to us

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  • I appreciate your point of view but I'm not angry about being autistic, I wouldn't be any other way. If i wasn't autistic I wouldn't be me, and that would never do! I am angry about the way the world treats us, my anger is directed out and not in, towards myself.

    I don't think I should have to put up with being referred to in terms that I find demeaning and denigrating just to get help. I can be in another category to neurotypical people without being in one that says I have a disorder. I refuse to feel so pathetically grateful for help that I won't question the baggage that comes with it.

    My employer will notice the word 'disorder' and its not being picky to think that it matters whether its there or not.

    We are all entitled to a point of view but I must disagree with yours on this occasion

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  • I appreciate your point of view but I'm not angry about being autistic, I wouldn't be any other way. If i wasn't autistic I wouldn't be me, and that would never do! I am angry about the way the world treats us, my anger is directed out and not in, towards myself.

    I don't think I should have to put up with being referred to in terms that I find demeaning and denigrating just to get help. I can be in another category to neurotypical people without being in one that says I have a disorder. I refuse to feel so pathetically grateful for help that I won't question the baggage that comes with it.

    My employer will notice the word 'disorder' and its not being picky to think that it matters whether its there or not.

    We are all entitled to a point of view but I must disagree with yours on this occasion

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