Who’s Not Failing Adults with Autism?
December 4, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Majority of Local Authorities [in the UK] Failing Adults with Autism, as noted in Medical News Today. The National Autistic Society’s Think Differently campaign has found that 148 out of 149 local authorities do not know how many adults with autism are in their area; 27% are planning to “address this issue,” that’s 73% who still need to. A long long way to go…………
“think differently campaign”…
Reminds me of Apple Computer’s “Think Different” campaign in the 90’s.
73 percent are doing nothing. 27 percent “plan” to do something.
Doesn’t that mean zero percent are currently doing something?
“148 out of 149 local authorities do not know how many adults with autism are in their area”
That means one local authority knows! Why isn’t he telling the other 148 local authorities?! What does that one guy do all day?
These really are depressing numbers.
How about teaching your metaphorical grandmother to suck eggs
(never really though of myself as a grandmother and egg sucking is not really a specialty of such grandames anyway)
To Rex:
All I know is if some suck-egg dog came around asking me if I was autistic, I would tell him to go suck himself.
“Local authority” in the U.K. NHS refers to a a regional health administrative council — not a person. There are nearly 200 local authorities charged with the mental health care of adults throughout the U.K.
The full report, which is available as a PDF, does point out that many adults don’t wish to be tracked, but in the nationalized system you don’t have a choice if you want other services.
Heh….try this in the U.S. many here believe it’s a childhood disorder, and that it eventually goes away.
After an especially rough couple of days with my dementia-like problems,I recently looked into group homes for adults with autism.I found there were a number of restrictions on who they let in.
First they are not too keen on letting in those who have serious medical problems in addition to autism,be it mitochondrial disease or severe uncontrolled epilepsy.Nor do they look too fondly on those who have say,psychotic disorders in addition to autism.You have to be fairly stable,medically or otherwise,and you have to be well enough to hold down a job.The places I talked to,suggested that if you are autistic,and more seriously disabled,you need to go into a nursing home,regardless of your age.
To laurentius-rex,or Larry,let me say that those with more severe forms of autism,are very obvious to the rest of the world.Some of us need frequent medical care.I am pressured into agreeing to go to a “residential care facility” every time I go in to see a doctor.Something those with Asperger’s or HFA would never have to deal with.
Hi Roger,
You’re right. I can’t imagine what it’s like to truly need help from institutions. It must be miserable to actually have to ask for it. Any advice or opinions from the likes of me must be worse than useless. You have my best wishes though.