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barnet mental health trust no longer works with people with ASD

peterainbow

so after having to fight to get a proper assessment so that i could get targeted help, having got that barnet mental health trust have now chnaged it's rules and now no longer offers help to people on ASD

this seem like discrimination to me, i now have to go and get my GP to go and argue with the main NHStrust or something, so basically it won;t happen

i suffer from sever depression and anxiety and although my psychs help has been limited, he has at least made me feel that i'm not on my own, he told me today that he can no monger accept appointments to see me as i am ASD, he doesn't agree with this but this is what BMHT have told him...

surely this cannot be right, i now have nowhere to go...

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  • Ah, at last....someone who can define "communication deficits"

    Let me try you with the examples of socialisation provided by NAS in their employer information sheets under what is autism?

    "may find it difficult to form or sustain conversation" and "may struggle with certain situations and with making conversation"

    But everyone knows what that is....its SHY!

    Would employers really comprehend the real implications for people on the spectrum? No, they just think we need a little coaxing out of our shells!

    The wording NAS uses fails to convey the fact that people on the spectrum not only have poor eye contact, but fail to observe non-verbal communication properly, AND fail to generate the appropriate non-verbal clues.

    It fails to convey that they might have real difficulty hearing all that's been said to them.

    It fails to convey that in a room with lots of people talking at the same time that people on the spectrum can get stressed and have difficulty coping.

    It fails to convey that people on the spectrum might be perceived as rude or insensitive because they cannot gauge the emotions others are conveying and cannot convey the expected social responses

    etc...etc.

    But all NAS is telling employers is we might be a bit shy...and let's face it everyone's had times when they've been a bit shy....its nothing to make a fuss about....ist it? 

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  • Ah, at last....someone who can define "communication deficits"

    Let me try you with the examples of socialisation provided by NAS in their employer information sheets under what is autism?

    "may find it difficult to form or sustain conversation" and "may struggle with certain situations and with making conversation"

    But everyone knows what that is....its SHY!

    Would employers really comprehend the real implications for people on the spectrum? No, they just think we need a little coaxing out of our shells!

    The wording NAS uses fails to convey the fact that people on the spectrum not only have poor eye contact, but fail to observe non-verbal communication properly, AND fail to generate the appropriate non-verbal clues.

    It fails to convey that they might have real difficulty hearing all that's been said to them.

    It fails to convey that in a room with lots of people talking at the same time that people on the spectrum can get stressed and have difficulty coping.

    It fails to convey that people on the spectrum might be perceived as rude or insensitive because they cannot gauge the emotions others are conveying and cannot convey the expected social responses

    etc...etc.

    But all NAS is telling employers is we might be a bit shy...and let's face it everyone's had times when they've been a bit shy....its nothing to make a fuss about....ist it? 

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