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Frankley I'm disgusted by the NAS (wait for the Censorship)

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I contacted the NAS wanting help as an adult who has been diagnosed with aspergers and now 34.

After a shambles of an advice line that to be totally honest was a waste of time after over a week of trying to get in contact with 2 people doing one persons job.

City Road Address and yet there is no call queue system and two part time people doing one persons job- shows how little they really want non residential people.

I receive direct payments and with the NAS allegedly championing Aspergers

(it seems to get donations) I expected that I would get some support and advice, not fobbed off to Citizens Advice.

Unhappy with what frankly I think comes close to fraud collecting donations from people believing they are donating to Autism/Aspergers Charity and yet when I have a dire situation-they couldn't care less.

I contacted a certain professor and he kindly offered to pass my experiences onto Mark Lever for me and has been a most pleasant person to chat via email to.

I'd hoped that there was some misunderstanding and a professor contacting the chief exec would result in some further contact and assistance.

But no, I had my carer's assistance to visit citizens advice and now have a dreadfully slow solicitor involved- but at least they listened and provided help.

I have also asked my MP to help and been told that they would intervene on my behalf.

So the net result as a documented Adult with written Diagnosis of Asperger hoping for help from the NAS- Nothing and for me the most shocking part of this is the fact that those less able than myself will have nowhere to turn to.

So I've reported the NAS to the charities commission- doubt much will happen

I fully expect the thread to get deleted- but then again it will only confirm that the NAS want people's money and Adults in Care in the community are left with no Support.

Thank You for NOTHING

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  • The NAS are completely useless for people with high functioning Asperger syndrome like myself. They were very unhelpful when I was a teenager and they have little to offer me as an adult. There is a very good discussion about this over on another forum.

    To make matters worse, my taxes are paying for this farce because the NAS is one of these government funded or 'fake' charities that in 2011 received nearly 90% of its income from the public purse.

    Paull said:
    I also am a bit peeved with NAS, I was diagnosed with aspergers/ASD last year and expected some help because the NHS virtually told me I had to go to NAS for help, but when I asked for help all I got was a load of PDF's sent by email, basically to me this meant if I want help then look elsewhere ???? even when I phoned up a few times nobody answered.

    The NHS and state schools always refer people to NAS and (almost) never to local independent ASD support groups because the NAS is the government's official and approved organisation for ASD and some deal or contract exists between them. I find plenty of people coming to my local ASD support group who were previously involved with - and more often than not let down by - the NAS.

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  • The NAS are completely useless for people with high functioning Asperger syndrome like myself. They were very unhelpful when I was a teenager and they have little to offer me as an adult. There is a very good discussion about this over on another forum.

    To make matters worse, my taxes are paying for this farce because the NAS is one of these government funded or 'fake' charities that in 2011 received nearly 90% of its income from the public purse.

    Paull said:
    I also am a bit peeved with NAS, I was diagnosed with aspergers/ASD last year and expected some help because the NHS virtually told me I had to go to NAS for help, but when I asked for help all I got was a load of PDF's sent by email, basically to me this meant if I want help then look elsewhere ???? even when I phoned up a few times nobody answered.

    The NHS and state schools always refer people to NAS and (almost) never to local independent ASD support groups because the NAS is the government's official and approved organisation for ASD and some deal or contract exists between them. I find plenty of people coming to my local ASD support group who were previously involved with - and more often than not let down by - the NAS.

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