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National Autistic versus Autism Society

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I'm sure I've raised this before, but cannot find where. When I search NAS on google I come up with lots more links to the National Autism Society. Has anyone else noticed this?

This is Mencap at (mencap org autism*)  They have a page on autism with a few links, but nothing remotely comparable with NAS.

But consider this, if unchallenged Mencap could go around with collection boxes labelled National Autism Society and many people might think they were giving to NAS.

Has anyone tried using this service?

Is it fair to use a confusing organisatiion title like this - trades descriptions act and all that?

*on Random's advice I've deleted the link less it improve its rating

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  • I agree with Electra. In fact, I started to say so this morning but my day interfered...

    We can't even agree amongst us on a common language, so it's disingenuous to suppose that our 'favourite' website is the 'only' one. Personaly, I'd like to make the NAS our 'go to' resource, forum and representation but we can't even agree amongst us on any of that. Even when I pointed out that we don't have a recognisable way to identify ourselves at need, I was pooh-poohed. I think that some people prefer to bleat about things than to make any effort to improve them.

    We recently got some agreement from NAS that we AS people actually know a bit about it. As it stands, as many of us have said, it singularly fails to reprtesent us in some important ways, but if we don't get involved to help inform the necessary changes, we have nothing to complain about. That leaves anyone, doing anything that 'supports' autism, free to collect money for their charitable aims. Not one of them can claim to be the definitive organisation, but nor can we claim that they're not.

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  • I agree with Electra. In fact, I started to say so this morning but my day interfered...

    We can't even agree amongst us on a common language, so it's disingenuous to suppose that our 'favourite' website is the 'only' one. Personaly, I'd like to make the NAS our 'go to' resource, forum and representation but we can't even agree amongst us on any of that. Even when I pointed out that we don't have a recognisable way to identify ourselves at need, I was pooh-poohed. I think that some people prefer to bleat about things than to make any effort to improve them.

    We recently got some agreement from NAS that we AS people actually know a bit about it. As it stands, as many of us have said, it singularly fails to reprtesent us in some important ways, but if we don't get involved to help inform the necessary changes, we have nothing to complain about. That leaves anyone, doing anything that 'supports' autism, free to collect money for their charitable aims. Not one of them can claim to be the definitive organisation, but nor can we claim that they're not.

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