Last Thursday, the National Autistic Society (NAS) emailed about improving mental health support for autistic individuals. They say they will "work with this parliament to strengthen the Mental Health Bill before it is passed into law to make sure we have better mental health and social services in the community to prevent autistic people from …
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Autistic people are being held back in job interviews. According to an item on BBC News yesterday, 28th February 2024, ambiguous questions in interviews and on application forms are partly to blame for the low employment rates of autistic people. Only 30% of autistic people are in work, it says, compared with 53.6% of all …
In December 1963 my family moved the short distance from Kirkheaton to Mirfield. I started a new school in January of 1964. There was a teacher there who recommended that I, aged 10, see a psychologist, but as Asperger’s syndrome would not be known in Britain for another 20 years and autism was only known …
Making an ass of myself 