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Are you autistic - The Inquest

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The channel four programme had a pretty good go at showing autism, more specifically what used to be referred to as Aspergers.

But where were the more mature autistic people. Those over 45? Those over 60? And I know I may have dropped off a bit during the programme so will have to watch it again,but there didn't seem to be a 'control' for the tasks. Just saying they had problems when presented with change. I would like to have seen how a neurotypical  behaved and coped in these circumstances. To me, as someone autistic, I still don't know how a NT picks up when interrupted, when I take ten or 15 minutes to get my thoughts focused again.

There also was an over representation of females although I know part of the raisin debtor was to show women are under represented in diagnosis. The speed dating bit I didn't get at all apart from to show that autistic people don't have green skin.I can make a good job of pretending I'm something I'm not for ten minutes if I keep to a script but sooner or later the script will vary to another play for which I haven't learned the lines and then the problems will start..

Yes, generally we do look like everyone else. However until people are not judged on appearance and superficial traits we will always have a problem in society. A society that supposedly welcomes truthfulness and open speech is greatly phased by someone autistic who tells it as it is.  And until this can be addressed we will always have a problem in the NT mind.

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  • I wondered whether to tag this into this thread or start a new topic, but thought it was relevant to here.

    Older people who have been diagnosed in their forties, fifties or sixties or later have had a long period trying to fit in to the NT society with various degrees of success. This was hinted at in the programme. As one such person, I managed to live a life until various changes over which I had no control suddenly caused me great problems. And although  my diagnosis has been helpful, and coming out has helped explain to other people why I am like I am, I do think I'm a lot of ways I am given the 'wrong' sort of help. Sometimes I am assumed at work to be mentally sub normal and given the most unsatisfying menial jobs to do and then this is used as a way of keeping  me in my place with threats of performance management and remarks that I am not doing a proper job.

    A lot of this is I believe she to lack of understanding of the true nature of autism combined with the need for total control over others by certain NT managers and the conflicting need for control over one's personal destiny and way of doing things by the autistic individual. What I would like to see in a programme is a film (using actors if necessary but using real situations) of  some employer confronted by an autistic individual  in these situations and to find out how they would deal with them, with an equality act lawyer then giving to a legal opinion. I' m sure many autistic employees could give real scenarios. It is all very well coming up with fine words in mission statements and policies about being 'inclusive ' but the practice of it is that there is very little inclusivity..

    The attitude in   my workplace is that the bullying will continue until morale improves. Or until  I am suffering so much from anxiety and depression that I am forced to leave.

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  • I wondered whether to tag this into this thread or start a new topic, but thought it was relevant to here.

    Older people who have been diagnosed in their forties, fifties or sixties or later have had a long period trying to fit in to the NT society with various degrees of success. This was hinted at in the programme. As one such person, I managed to live a life until various changes over which I had no control suddenly caused me great problems. And although  my diagnosis has been helpful, and coming out has helped explain to other people why I am like I am, I do think I'm a lot of ways I am given the 'wrong' sort of help. Sometimes I am assumed at work to be mentally sub normal and given the most unsatisfying menial jobs to do and then this is used as a way of keeping  me in my place with threats of performance management and remarks that I am not doing a proper job.

    A lot of this is I believe she to lack of understanding of the true nature of autism combined with the need for total control over others by certain NT managers and the conflicting need for control over one's personal destiny and way of doing things by the autistic individual. What I would like to see in a programme is a film (using actors if necessary but using real situations) of  some employer confronted by an autistic individual  in these situations and to find out how they would deal with them, with an equality act lawyer then giving to a legal opinion. I' m sure many autistic employees could give real scenarios. It is all very well coming up with fine words in mission statements and policies about being 'inclusive ' but the practice of it is that there is very little inclusivity..

    The attitude in   my workplace is that the bullying will continue until morale improves. Or until  I am suffering so much from anxiety and depression that I am forced to leave.

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