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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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    Perhaps it suggests that the people who needed to have their autism identified or diagnosed have more problems than blessings from autism. Perhaps, in that group of people, the impairments that contribute to diagnosis are actually seen as impairments rather than differences? Perhaps the professionals, who are primarily exposed to people in that category are influenced by the impact that autism has on that group of people because they don't have much to do with other people on the spectrum who are managing perfectly well.

    Perhaps disorder designates the state when balance needs to be restored and condition describes autism that is at ease with the rest of the world?

    I'm comfortable with the term disorder but I may be more comfortable with a different term when order is restored?

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Perhaps it suggests that the people who needed to have their autism identified or diagnosed have more problems than blessings from autism. Perhaps, in that group of people, the impairments that contribute to diagnosis are actually seen as impairments rather than differences? Perhaps the professionals, who are primarily exposed to people in that category are influenced by the impact that autism has on that group of people because they don't have much to do with other people on the spectrum who are managing perfectly well.

    Perhaps disorder designates the state when balance needs to be restored and condition describes autism that is at ease with the rest of the world?

    I'm comfortable with the term disorder but I may be more comfortable with a different term when order is restored?

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