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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'm going to make myself really unpopular and say that whilst i do appreciate your support and your reasoning I don't like the term 'condition'

    Condition implies something temporary, it implies there is an autistic bit of me you could cut out and leave a 'normal' person behind. This is not so. If i was not autistic then i would be a comletely different person, not me. I was born autistic, i will die autistic. I'm autistic from the top of my head to the soles of my feet, from the inside of my bones to the outside of my skin. And i rejoice in that.

    Words matter, the language used to name and define people matters. Calling people autistic is fine, lets stick with that. 'Aspien' is good  and some people like to be called 'autist'. Lets name ourselves and take our identity back from the terms used by the medical profession which often limit and disempower us.

    Further reasoning can be found here:

    www.tonyattwood.com.au/.../79-the-discovery-of-aspie-criteria

    yesthattoo.blogspot.co.uk/.../dont-call-me-person-with-autism.html

    Here endeth the rant. For now

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  • I'm going to make myself really unpopular and say that whilst i do appreciate your support and your reasoning I don't like the term 'condition'

    Condition implies something temporary, it implies there is an autistic bit of me you could cut out and leave a 'normal' person behind. This is not so. If i was not autistic then i would be a comletely different person, not me. I was born autistic, i will die autistic. I'm autistic from the top of my head to the soles of my feet, from the inside of my bones to the outside of my skin. And i rejoice in that.

    Words matter, the language used to name and define people matters. Calling people autistic is fine, lets stick with that. 'Aspien' is good  and some people like to be called 'autist'. Lets name ourselves and take our identity back from the terms used by the medical profession which often limit and disempower us.

    Further reasoning can be found here:

    www.tonyattwood.com.au/.../79-the-discovery-of-aspie-criteria

    yesthattoo.blogspot.co.uk/.../dont-call-me-person-with-autism.html

    Here endeth the rant. For now

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