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
Firstly it is in the introducing myself section.
I do not think it is the best place to put it but I did not know where else to put it.
This is a separate issue to what the campaign is called.
Will the Community introduce a Autism Maturing section or an Autism Ageing section?
Will the Community introduce an NAS Current Campaigns section?
The best place to put it would be Current Campaigns section but there is not one.
Secondly it does not matter when a person is diagnosed.
People with certain disabilities such as Learning Difficulties or Developmental
(Autism is really a Developmental Disability.)
Difficulties or Mental Illness find it even harder than the general population to get the appropriate treatment in the very busy hospitals of the NHS
David.