Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

NAS have hijacked autism, as it is a very lucrative business. No one knows what it is, so it can be used as a label to increase the NAS empire. They promote that people are grateful for a label. But that is effectively all they get. And what does such a label mean substantively- little. Practically it means that NAS can then broke its recommendations , legal contacts, insurance etc. Even charging £2 for a card which can be shown by parents to the public to show their child is autistic- but what help or use will that serve ?

NAS has wasted money on campaigns such as autisim awareness,, which are not needed, and serve little purpose other than wasting donations and fundraising - the public do not want to know about whatever autism is, and as it is unknown will be even more frightened of an autistic person.

NAS has done nothing about excluding autism from being a mental illness within the new MHA, which means that any autistic person can now lose their liberty, and be put on enforced inapproriate,highly damaging, expensive antipsychotic medicine to regain it.

Anyone can gain academic qualifications and become autistic specialists and enhance their careers, and education is thus highly lucrative for NAS, as the one eyed man is king. The befriending help that NAS boasts of, is paid for in the degree the befriender student pays for as it is part of his training.

NAS's only support is an impersonal phone help line, which can only refer you to a lawyer who is out to get work, usually intially providing the same information as NAS web or internet, or a parent volunteer in a local group . The local groups are all highly stage managed and provide a weekly coffee morning and half day playgroup/ recretion session at most.

A glossy magazine selling NAS related services and repetative stories, full of NAS propaganda and workshps teling you information already available from the web is the only other support.

NAS will not take on any authorities/ establishment, as their main funding is from the government or was. So they will not insist GP's come out to autistic children, who are too disturbed to attend surgery, or indeed attend to their medical needs or monitor them more closely because they cannot tell you they are in pain. NAS do not stop the use of drugs like respiridone, as chemical coshs on these children and adults, in fact the use of such drugs is up 10 fold on children, yet forbidden for alzeihmers because of that associations campaigns.

The options for the deemed severely autistic are 52 week placements for which NAS is paid on average 200.000 per annum, recently a particularly difficult boy commands 300,000, most of these will be put on enforced chemical cosh,s and if parents object they will be cut out of their child's care by a care order. Remember to, as a charity this income is tax free. In these times of recession autism is a goldmine, as it would appear education, heALTH and social services are prepared to pay any amount to get these children and adults out of the community and off their books. Meanwhile the care given them is by carers on the minmium wage often from agencies.

NAS does little for autism, the families of the autistic or the deparately vunerable, whose only misfortune to be  born different.  

NAS have hijacked autism, as it is a very lucrative business. No one knows what it is, so it can be used as a label to increase the NAS empire. They promote that people are grateful for a label. But that is effectively all they get. And what does such a label mean substantively- little. Practically it means that NAS can then broke its recommendations , legal contacts, insurance etc. Even charging £2 for a card which can be shown by parents to the public to show their child is autistic- but what help or use will that serve ?

NAS has wasted money on campaigns such as autisim awareness,, which are not needed, and serve little purpose other than wasting donations and fundraising - the public do not want to know about whatever autism is, and as it is unknown will be even more frightened of an autistic person.

NAS has done nothing about excluding autism from being a mental illness within the new MHA, which means that any autistic person can now lose their liberty, and be put on enforced inapproriate,highly damaging, expensive antipsychotic medicine to regain it.

Anyone can gain academic qualifications and become autistic specialists and enhance their careers, and education is thus highly lucrative for NAS, as the one eyed man is king. The befriending help that NAS boasts of, is paid for in the degree the befriender student pays for as it is part of his training.

NAS's only support is an impersonal phone help line, which can only refer you to a lawyer who is out to get work, usually intially providing the same information as NAS web or internet, or a parent volunteer in a local group . The local groups are all highly stage managed and provide a weekly coffee morning and half day playgroup/ recretion session at most.

A glossy magazine selling NAS related services and repetative stories, full of NAS propaganda and workshps teling you information already available from the web is the only other support.

NAS will not take on any authorities/ establishment, as their main funding is from the government or was. So they will not insist GP's come out to autistic children, who are too disturbed to attend surgery, or indeed attend to their medical needs or monitor them more closely because they cannot tell you they are in pain. NAS do not stop the use of drugs like respiridone, as chemical coshs on these children and adults, in fact the use of such drugs is up 10 fold on children, yet forbidden for alzeihmers because of that associations campaigns.

The options for the deemed severely autistic are 52 week placements for which NAS is paid on average 200.000 per annum, recently a particularly difficult boy commands 300,000, most of these will be put on enforced chemical cosh,s and if parents object they will be cut out of their child's care by a care order. Remember to, as a charity this income is tax free. In these times of recession autism is a goldmine, as it would appear education, heALTH and social services are prepared to pay any amount to get these children and adults out of the community and off their books. Meanwhile the care given them is by carers on the minmium wage often from agencies.

NAS does little for autism, the families of the autistic or the deparately vunerable, whose only misfortune to be  born different.