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lindsey6767

Hi everyone. My name is Lindsey and I go to the University of Dallas. I am about to gradute, in Maybe, and would love to hear stories of your experiences and how you came to realize that you were different in view of having autism. I would like to get these descriptions of your experience in how you came to understand that you have autism. If you are willing I would love to give a voice to your experience.  Please reply if you want to give me a story. I would love to hear one.

  • I was hoping the moderators would answer this. It is on the left hand side of the pages under Discussion Forum - Community Rules...admittedly it is not well explained. One way is to use the "Feedback to NAS" option on your own posting to ask them to be more helpful. There is no guarantee otherwise that the mods will come back and see your question in the discussion thread.

    I should say though that if you are using any site for research it is considered a courtesy to ask the site manager or moderator for permission.

    As the Moderator has already explained this is a community help line - a safe place for people to seek advice from others. It really isn't fair to use it as a quarry for a student research project. By "voicing" something individuals disclose here in answering your request, my interpretation is you intend to post it on another website, or use it as an illustration in a project report or performance work or a dissertation or other piece of student work for assessment.

    But even if you reproduce such information without disclosing where you got it, the details given might cause embarrassment if recognised as coming from a particular source or identifying an institution etc. And you cannot really guarantee that your extracted information wont be borrowed by someone else and used to cause harm.

    Also collecting information for a student project in this ad hoc way could invalidate your assessment/marks allocated for the work. It is considered unethical to do this.

    Your faculty at the University of Dallas will have research guidelines which include ethics. These may be explained for postgraduates, for undergraduates it is assumed you have a superviser or year tutor who will explain things.

  • Hi Lindsey6767,

    Thank you for your message and welcome to the community.

    Can you tell us a little bit more about what you mean by 'giving voice'? Specifically, how you are going to use any users' experiences shared? This site is mainly to inform and support members as well as a safe place to ask for advice. The info shared cannot be shared with any third parties unless you gain ethical approval from NAS.

    Please have a look at our community rules community.autism.org.uk/rules.

    Many thanks,

    Kalliopi (community moderator)