Just an observation

I hadn’t considered that Jason might take his life I didn’t know why Cambridge had it such a public affair. I avoided the case. I found him unsettling to look at. He had eyes that used to stare. I decided not to watch to respect him and wished him well and wanted it to be resolved. I am Black to.

Last I heard was this his former university had cleared his thesis.

I find the case a bit odd to work out with things not explained. He was a non verbal autistic and then taught himself and not a tutor. I have problems with grammar. I didn’t learn perfectly and my spelling and grammar at university I used to get marks knocked off, I got a word processor which helped. Today I use word.

With severe autism if he had that it comes for some with sensory problems like balance and coordination. If he had this he improved.

Some people state online that they were “healed” from their autism and some say they improved like Temple Grandin. I listened to one story and one man said he was non verbal but I was looking at it I thought he was probably very mild now, but not “healed”. That is the extent I know of those stories. There were things missed out from the story like he did he improve from autism aside to of being non verbal to become verbal.

It is very sad for his children. 

One shouldn’t use the condition to cover up errors at the level of university. I think that there needs to be a review of this.

Did you know him well then, if you did I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm a bit confused why you're talking about his autism in this way though?

I didn't know him at all. I am just writing there was gaps to be able to understand things left out about his autism. 

Like did he teach himself to write and not have a tutor as it is not easy to do this yourself and to become a lecturer to when your English needs to be very good in order to mark others for this to.

The running he did I know severe autistics and some have issues with co-ordination and balance and he did many marathons so I wonder if he had this complication did it improve to enable him to do this long distance running.

There are things not explained which in some cases people have claimed they recovered from a severe autism to have a milder one, but I don't know the case here as it is not been said.

He had good eye contact to which you don't need to have to be autistic poor eye contact-but it can look like he improved with his condition overall if it had once been more severe.

Aside from this-I am sorry that it came to this for him.

i like to make sense of things to try and understand them sometimes, and not that I am questioning them. 

I had considered if he was diagnosed with aspergers and he said he was himself I have since found out, so it makes things clearer for me. 

You have written things were unanswered we may not know, I thought quite the same and was not doubting if he could be autistic, just that if he used to be severe and was milder now. Now I know he was diagnosed with aspergers so not diagnosed with severe autism.

I think you may have read things into this a bit more than I intended

Is his experience only valid if you totally understand it? Is this a standard you use to judge everyone?

As I'm sure you know those of us who were dignosed before 2013 may have been diagnosed as having Aspergers rather than Autism, this change dosen't invalidate a diagnosis of Aspegers or make us less autistic. It was much harder to get a diagnosis back then, I think diagnosis now is a lot more nuanced and personally I wish I could be retested, because my diagnosis was less nuanced.

We all manifest our autism differently and thats what makes it a spectrum.

I'm actually surprised at the questioning of Professor Arday's diagnosis on a forum dedicated to autism and the struggles we face in our daily lives. None of us are under any obligation to share more of ourselves than we're comfortable with and that goes for people in academia and in the public eye more generally. If a sense of "having the right to know" should be used as a reason, then I'd ask who has the right to know what, where and when? I don't think the details of someone like Professor Arday's diagnosis are really anyones business except that of the medical team who's job it is to diagnose and offer support to autistics. I'd also say that the fact that Professor Simon Baron Cohen, a friend of Arday's and one of the worlds best experts on Autism does not doubt Arday's diagnosis should be enough for us lesser mortals. 

Is his experience only valid if you totally understand it? Is this a standard you use to judge everyone?

As I'm sure you know those of us who were dignosed before 2013 may have been diagnosed as having Aspergers rather than Autism, this change dosen't invalidate a diagnosis of Aspegers or make us less autistic. It was much harder to get a diagnosis back then, I think diagnosis now is a lot more nuanced and personally I wish I could be retested, because my diagnosis was less nuanced.

We all manifest our autism differently and thats what makes it a spectrum.

I'm actually surprised at the questioning of Professor Arday's diagnosis on a forum dedicated to autism and the struggles we face in our daily lives. None of us are under any obligation to share more of ourselves than we're comfortable with and that goes for people in academia and in the public eye more generally. If a sense of "having the right to know" should be used as a reason, then I'd ask who has the right to know what, where and when? I don't think the details of someone like Professor Arday's diagnosis are really anyones business except that of the medical team who's job it is to diagnose and offer support to autistics. I'd also say that the fact that Professor Simon Baron Cohen, a friend of Arday's and one of the worlds best experts on Autism does not doubt Arday's diagnosis should be enough for us lesser mortals. 

i like to make sense of things to try and understand them sometimes, and not that I am questioning them. 

I had considered if he was diagnosed with aspergers and he said he was himself I have since found out, so it makes things clearer for me. 

You have written things were unanswered we may not know, I thought quite the same and was not doubting if he could be autistic, just that if he used to be severe and was milder now. Now I know he was diagnosed with aspergers so not diagnosed with severe autism.

I think you may have read things into this a bit more than I intended