THE FIVE WAYS IN WHICH THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF AUTISTIC PEOPLE ARE ROUTINELY VIOLATED

Well certainly in deprivation of liberty cases I've been reading a few cases recently where judges have been turning around to doctors and councils and saying "the medical recommendation is this autistic person should be cared for in the community so I'm squashing the court order for their detention. I don't care if you haven't got the support package for them in place because the law says you have to put it in place whether you think you can afford to or not." I get the distinct impression the judiciary has had enough of being asked to lock autistic people up for lack of social care and are going to resist it more going forward.

That would be awful.  I think there'd be an outcry against that.

If I were a betting man, I could take a bet that the definition will be used then to deny "pip" to people on the grounds that Autism isn't a disability!

I think so.  There is a rising political tide behind reform, which I can atest to, but only anecdotally.  You're right, it would be useful to have a factual breakdown.

Perhaps they are referring to this www.local.gov.uk/.../reforming-mental-health-act-white-paper-2021

Ok I know this is supposed to be drawn from research done by NAS but I for one would like to see the research for my self to understand the findings in context. Very much a case of citation needed. There’s no reason they couldn’t reference / link the research unless it’s unpublished and if it is unpublished I’d like to know why.

secondly there is the issue of their claim at the end of Imminent legislative change. It’s written as if it were a statement of fact not mere aspiration. Yet they do nothing to back up their assertion. I want to know why. Have they been told something off the record? Is NAS planing a campaign for new legislation?

Me too. I think there is a slow, but hopefully unstoppable trend in the right direction.

I hope this bit turns out to be true:

Legislative changes such as this are in part the result of a greater awareness and adoption of the idea of “neurodiversity” among humans, which acknowledges that human minds and brains are not all the same and that diversity should be celebrated. Next year we will increasingly view autism through this lens, which is strikingly different to the standard medical model of the condition.

It is easier in practical terms, once you have a diagnosis.  But you're right, I haven't found it a 'relief', or easier in terms of my mental health.  Getting a diagnosis of autism was a massive shock to me.

Same for me too I didn’t always know, only that I was different it helps now I have a reason but it’s still hard.

I've always thought that, too.  Since I was only diagnosed last year, in my 60s, I've only just discovered why.

Interesting read, hopefully things do improve for us and the world becomes at least slightly easier for us to exist within.

it’s a shame, I’ve always thought to myself that I’m just not built for this society we live in.

Yes, I thought so.

Interesting reading.

Stephen it's just a simple discussion on some aspects of life for autistic people.  But if the issue upsets you don't respond any more to this post. I pick and choose the topics I check-out here; I find some of them distressing / triggering / annoying and I just don't pay any attention to those, for the most part.  Best wishes to you.  

This made me feel a tad sick if I’m honest. Wounded why we suffer severe anxiety depression disorders, self harm and play with death. I can’t help saying the wrong thing when it counts the most