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David B

Hello My name is David Brickstock

I'm a 22 year old university Student currently studying TV and Radio at the University of Salford

For my web design project I decided to make a guide on life at university for people with autism

I figured i'd post it here as it seems the most appropriate place

If you a parent or person with autism looking for information about university life or are seeking any advice feel free to email me on the email page  Smile

www.thomaslewis.me/.../index.html

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  • We will be a long time waiting for NAS to come up with answers. Essentially if you can get to University or you can get a secure job, you haven't got autism! So nobody bothers.

    The big problem remains this idea that somehow, you can resolve autism by just writing things down.

    This hinges on a misunderstanding of the communication difficulty - its not that we cannot hear - it is that we have difficulty processing some of the information, including that communicated in SOCIAL environments. It forgets too that many people on the spectrum have comorbid dyslexia

    Writing down a job instruction, for example, that would otherwise be explained verbally by a manager, is sheer nonsense. Non-autistic people discuss through social mechanisms the interpretation of a task. The person with autism cannot share that interpreted knowledge, because of difficulties interfacing socially.

    So whether heard, or read, the difficulty people on the spectrum have with instructions is having to interpret them ON THEIR OWN n isolation, while their workmates are able to change or modify the interpretation through social exchange. So the person with autism ends up doing things differently, or apparently a contrary way to others.

    But don't expect NAS to understand.

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  • We will be a long time waiting for NAS to come up with answers. Essentially if you can get to University or you can get a secure job, you haven't got autism! So nobody bothers.

    The big problem remains this idea that somehow, you can resolve autism by just writing things down.

    This hinges on a misunderstanding of the communication difficulty - its not that we cannot hear - it is that we have difficulty processing some of the information, including that communicated in SOCIAL environments. It forgets too that many people on the spectrum have comorbid dyslexia

    Writing down a job instruction, for example, that would otherwise be explained verbally by a manager, is sheer nonsense. Non-autistic people discuss through social mechanisms the interpretation of a task. The person with autism cannot share that interpreted knowledge, because of difficulties interfacing socially.

    So whether heard, or read, the difficulty people on the spectrum have with instructions is having to interpret them ON THEIR OWN n isolation, while their workmates are able to change or modify the interpretation through social exchange. So the person with autism ends up doing things differently, or apparently a contrary way to others.

    But don't expect NAS to understand.

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