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Radio 4 Out of the Ordinary

DaisyGirl

I have just heard this programme on BBC iplayer. It was broadcast on Monday 3rd march 2014 at 11am.

I can't belive what I was hearing. According to the presenter, who seems to have absolutely no understanding of Asperger's/autism, we can be "trained" out of our Asperger's behaviour and then just not be Aspie anymore. We're all just introverted and selfish.

He doesn't seem to realise that those of us with a diagnosis of Asperger's meet the diagnostic criteria for autism, we just didn't have language delay (and some with the Aspie diagnosis did have language delay).

Awful.

Just to add, he also doesn;t understand that Asperger's is not and has never been a mental illness, it is a developmental disorder, but because of the way medicine is organised there is no other branch to deal with the diagnoses than psychiatry. 

Parents

  • This was my concern as well. Members of the public who know next to nothing about the condition will not be educated by this program. Asperger's needs to be seen as it is - a serious and disabling condition- and should not be trivialised or misrepresented. I would expect better from the BBC.

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  • This was my concern as well. Members of the public who know next to nothing about the condition will not be educated by this program. Asperger's needs to be seen as it is - a serious and disabling condition- and should not be trivialised or misrepresented. I would expect better from the BBC.

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