Published on 12, July, 2020
I’m wondering what people’s thoughts are on the issue of post-diagnostic autism assessment, as a basic standard practice for both adults and children alike, which should be a legal obligation for those tasked with diagnosing autism, in both private and public health settings, in respect of both adults and children with autism - without a post diagnostic assessment, one has no idea what one’s support needs are and therefore there is no way to legally enforce one’s entitlements to have reasonable adjustments put in place, for example in employment - we are totally reliant and dependent on the goodwill of charities to provide the support that we need which should be a legal requirement within a legal framework and as certain basic minimum standards that are legally enforceable - autism experts should be brought in to help design proper support and assessment as well as helping to draft laws that will force society to properly provide for us by properly having support structures in place, the proper implementation of which will be backed up by force of law - current laws are simply not good enough and given the statistics, this situation is even more unacceptable - aside from campaigns for increased funding, campaigns for legislative change should be launched
well for one the people who diagnosed you cannot be held accountable to provide you with support, because if you noticed they are very busy and you have around a 4 to 8 year waiting que for diagnosis which is growing and growing none stop. their work is too much.... do you think they also then have the time to support personally each one they gave a diagnosis to? nope, they are having to rush through a never ending waiting que onto the next and the next and the next.they are unable to provide support as they are busy doing diagnosis for millions of people.as for the reasonable adjustments, you could trigger reasonable adjustments by getting any sick note, get a sick note for stress or depression and they have to offer reasonable adjustments.... although if there is none they can do or none they want to do they dont actually have to offer exactly what you wanted. it all depends if the employer is willing to play ball on it with you or not. went through this myself, my own gp said that i can request reasonable adjustments but they dont actually have to go along with them or accept my request.