Just an observation

I have searched and cannot seem to find any information about Prof Jason Ardey anywhere in the online community. I find this whole thing a bit disturbing. To me it highlights the public discomfort about autism.

I ran a quick search today, what strikes me about this most is how the media has been used/weaponised by people attempting to discredit him. Any one with an opinion is able to post vicious unsubstantiated information to try and influence someone’s career. Questioning the level of his autism and his abilities.

As someone who has been pressurised by others at work and school I find this shocking and abusive.

The elephant in the room is autism. I'm not looking to start a debate there are things about this which hit me right at the core.

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  • 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.

  • CatWoman-I found Arday’s  case a bit unable to understand it properly what I heard and I went no further thinking about it.  Information came out that he was a non verbal autistic to 11 then he learnt to read and write at 18. I didn’t know if he was a severe autistic as a child and had improved to be more communicative as we saw him most recently.

    I was not actually denying if he could be autistic, just that if he may be used to be quite severe and improved. Some children do improve and I didn’t know if it was a case of that or what.

    Not being able to understand it well, I wasn’t asking for an explanation, just that I couldn’t understand it fully. This is not a uncommon way that an autistic person think, that they like things to be explained. I was not wanting to know their personal business.

    I also wrote that some autistics who are severe not all may have balance and coordination issues but it is not uncommon.

    I also wrote some autistics do not have poor eye contact, and it is not needed for a diagnosis. What I writing  is that the overall picture was not someone who was severe.

    Things have become more understood as I mentioned-he was diagnosed as a child with aspergers which he has said himself in an interview. Yes, it merged with autism as we know today, but it means he didn’t have severe autism so the unanswered thoughts which I was not looking to be explained was understood.

    As for questioning diagnosis or waning to know more information, you wrote not recently many seem like ADHD on here which seem to some as also may be questioning. I was trying to understand and was not questioning him. 

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  • CatWoman-I found Arday’s  case a bit unable to understand it properly what I heard and I went no further thinking about it.  Information came out that he was a non verbal autistic to 11 then he learnt to read and write at 18. I didn’t know if he was a severe autistic as a child and had improved to be more communicative as we saw him most recently.

    I was not actually denying if he could be autistic, just that if he may be used to be quite severe and improved. Some children do improve and I didn’t know if it was a case of that or what.

    Not being able to understand it well, I wasn’t asking for an explanation, just that I couldn’t understand it fully. This is not a uncommon way that an autistic person think, that they like things to be explained. I was not wanting to know their personal business.

    I also wrote that some autistics who are severe not all may have balance and coordination issues but it is not uncommon.

    I also wrote some autistics do not have poor eye contact, and it is not needed for a diagnosis. What I writing  is that the overall picture was not someone who was severe.

    Things have become more understood as I mentioned-he was diagnosed as a child with aspergers which he has said himself in an interview. Yes, it merged with autism as we know today, but it means he didn’t have severe autism so the unanswered thoughts which I was not looking to be explained was understood.

    As for questioning diagnosis or waning to know more information, you wrote not recently many seem like ADHD on here which seem to some as also may be questioning. I was trying to understand and was not questioning him. 

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