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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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    Hi CC,

    There are autism awareness badges available with the jigsaw logo that would probably attract some sympathy and solidarity from people recognise the logo. This wouldn't mark you out as autistic so it wouldn't have the downside of the "I am disabled" badge that was discussed in the other thread.

    I suspect that we, as a group, are particularly difficult to organise or to get some (any?) agreement about the issues we face. It will be particularly unrewarding for anyone to try and help us so in a sense we are our worst enemy. Children, on the other hand, have their parents who will tend to be less individualistic and argumentative and they will be more motivated by the common cause of how to help their children.

    I never had any intent of moving on, I'm entirely satsified by having a place to discuss the issues and I'm grateful to NAS that there is this facility. It's the most valuable resource I have used since diagnosis. I suspect that others get very little support elsewhere so we must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

    This is just my 2p as they say and I don't expect that we will get much concensus, we just aren't made to be agreeable!

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Hi CC,

    There are autism awareness badges available with the jigsaw logo that would probably attract some sympathy and solidarity from people recognise the logo. This wouldn't mark you out as autistic so it wouldn't have the downside of the "I am disabled" badge that was discussed in the other thread.

    I suspect that we, as a group, are particularly difficult to organise or to get some (any?) agreement about the issues we face. It will be particularly unrewarding for anyone to try and help us so in a sense we are our worst enemy. Children, on the other hand, have their parents who will tend to be less individualistic and argumentative and they will be more motivated by the common cause of how to help their children.

    I never had any intent of moving on, I'm entirely satsified by having a place to discuss the issues and I'm grateful to NAS that there is this facility. It's the most valuable resource I have used since diagnosis. I suspect that others get very little support elsewhere so we must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

    This is just my 2p as they say and I don't expect that we will get much concensus, we just aren't made to be agreeable!

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