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LimaMikeSquared
over 6 years ago

Hello, 

I am sort of new. I have been a member a long time and not really visited. 

My partner and I have suspected I have high functioning autism for a little while but not started to follow a diagnosis route. I have just started this year. Being in Suffolk and a high functioning adult I seem to be at the bottom of the list (it has taken 4 months to move from the Mental Health Advisor appointment to the first phone call from the Access and Assessment team and that is as far as I have gotten). 

 I am in full time work but have a very understanding employer, so i am lucky in this aspect. The company exercises flexi working for hours and location which has been a god send at times. My line manager is great and essentially being an archaeological curator it suits my tendencies well and I have found I can use some of them to my advantage. I do seem to mirror many school children here though in that I perform well at work but then at home I am worn out and go to pieces.

My main query is there any useful literature out there for my husband. He has emotional dysregulation issues and is struggling finding techniques to help me - I have been starting to research and learn DBT techniques (I am not very far in) and wondered if anyone knew of some of these that I could point him to to help me coming from the other direction.

Also has anyone got any recommendations on good positive books for understanding adult autism and how to help a spouse with it. I can relate to the issues in books focused on school age children but find the techniques a bit specialised for the school environment and placed from a parenting point of view. 

Thank you

Julie

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  • over 6 years ago

    Hi all,

    Please see the following web page for the NAS's position statement on the matter of Autism and vaccines: http://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/media-centre/news/2017-05-04-restating-our-position-no-connection-between-autism-and-vaccines.aspx

    Thanks,

    Nellie-Mod

  • over 6 years ago in reply to Deleted user

    There is however a clear link.

    Parents with autism tend to be very opinionated about using vaccines on their children. Polio was a legally obliged one, Rubella is dangerous for a pregnant woman, we gave it for sure to my daughter. Measles we considered not giving it, but it was a package deal with Rubella... 

    And yes, when I use doctor Google I am aware that two articles pro and one con doesn't mean pro is the winning argument. 

    Even better, I went five years to university and have an engineering degree. In Agriculture, so lots of chemistry, nutrition, field tests, statistics. I know how articles get published, I know the titles of these articles would never make it to a hipster T-shirt slogan ... and when the cool articles make it to the tabloids typical phrases like 'on a population of locusts grown in a lab'... are left out and what stays and makes that cute article is 'peanut butter cures skin cancer'...

  • over 6 years ago in reply to MDC

    I also know that the statement 'I have a university degree in engineering' just translates to 'I took rougly 200 quizzes and passed them all after studying for them.  

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