Published on 12, July, 2020
I am fifty-six so I am now involved with the Autism and Ageing Campaign the National Autistic Society is doing.
I mentioned this campaign on the World Autism Support Network and got a reply from someone involved.
The right place is to discuss it in this Community.
There is not a space for campaigns so I was not sure where to mention this campaign.
It is important for people to realise that children do not grow out of their Autism.
If we live to a hundred we will still be Autistic.
That is why it is important for Doctors and Nurses and other people who work in the National Health Service are aware of Autism.
David
Thanks to David Cameron there is now a law that one cannot refuse to employ someone because he or she is over sixty-five.
I know someone who was looking for work over aged sixty-five and when he applied on line for jobs he still had to put his age on the application. I understand when he reached sixty-five he could not get any jobs as a classroom assistant.
The National Autistic Society should have recruited people over sixty-five for their Autism and Ageing campaign. They some how should have recruited retired people for the contract of about a year in the Autism and Ageing campaign.
The point of the campaign is that the National Health Service and other caring organisations should be aware of older Autistic people.
We need to get rid of the perception that only CHILDREN can be AUTISTIC.
It is a life long condition.
David.