New Statutory body as an alternative to the NHS for mental health and hidden disability

And one more thing to add before I bail out to walk my dogs.

The centres should fundamentally be tasked not just to help the person that comes there negotiate the problems they encounter.  They should address the systemic problems they encounter that cause them....

One thing that would stop issues ia if ALL staff in All Buisnessea had to understand all disablitys but Bo they go on a crap awareness course where a man in ansuit twoks them what aswers to give Eto pass a one page test

This is the very reason why urgent amendments to the Autism Act 2009 must be made, with far greater enforcement powers (in a similar way to the health and safety laws) and with massively increased provision for police investigations and criminal prosecutions of senior management who are found not implementing the provisions correctly - only when we as autistic people have ever more draconian laws to protect our rights will we ever get anywhere - there is no point in having laws unless they are properly enforced and there also needs to be greater monitoring and supervision of senior management specially provided for in any amendments to the Autism Act 2009 

Understood Alexa - this thread has become a long one and it has covered a lot of ground.

What I was asking was what your suggestion for what a single public body to resolve the mental health and neurodivergent failings that the NHS have would look like? That is if you agree it is necessary.

Sorry if I've missed the salient parts of your thread/s, there's an awful lot of it to take in and respond too and to be honest I didn't really understand a lot of it.

I think we all have baggage, it's part of the human condition, NT's do too.

I'm not sure I've ever subscribed to the idea of '..having to put up with it...' I've spent much of my adult life trying to create change, one of the the things I've learnt is that you have to destruction test any new theory, idea or way of doing things. There's a lot of vested interests in the status quo, people don't give up ower easily or without a fight and it all leads into the learned helplessness you speak of people are much easier to manage and control if they've been taught that they have no real control and that it rests n the hands of so called experts.

Cliques exist in all walks of life and you often get competing cliques who will fight each other and any attempts to change anything, I think one of the most horrible experiences is having competing cliques gang up and see "you" as the common enemy. It's one of the reasons why I think change can be so hard, your not just fighting a system but others who are fed up with "the system", but can't agree on what the solutions are and seemingly more importantly who's in charge. It's often the power struggle thats the most draining and of course me being me, makes me want to bang heads together and make myself a dictator, somethng I've never been very good at as I can't be ar$ed.

Ok, but in that case I really don't understand your comment about autistic people being a clique. To me, it's like saying any minority group is a clique simply because we're a minority within society, which is not the dictionary definition of a clique.

Ok, but in that case I really don't understand your comment about autistic people being a clique. To me, it's like saying any minority group is a clique simply because we're a minority within society, which is not the dictionary definition of a clique.