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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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  • Fair enough Electra... it is good to have a rant sometimes.

    For the record...

    I am an Aspie.
    I call myself an Aspie.
    I have Asperger Syndrome... a condition on the Autism Spectrum.
    ...and I like being an Aspie. 


    (p.s. I do recall Baron-Cohen saying that even though a person might be given a diagnosis at one point, at a later date if that person is coping well in life, they may not need that diagnosis any more... ie that diagnosis is given because of your needs at the time and not as a label for life. Off the top of my head, that was in the BBC Horizon programme about Uta Frith, watchable on youtube.)

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  • Fair enough Electra... it is good to have a rant sometimes.

    For the record...

    I am an Aspie.
    I call myself an Aspie.
    I have Asperger Syndrome... a condition on the Autism Spectrum.
    ...and I like being an Aspie. 


    (p.s. I do recall Baron-Cohen saying that even though a person might be given a diagnosis at one point, at a later date if that person is coping well in life, they may not need that diagnosis any more... ie that diagnosis is given because of your needs at the time and not as a label for life. Off the top of my head, that was in the BBC Horizon programme about Uta Frith, watchable on youtube.)

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