April is Autism Awareness Month in the US.
Here, in Canada October is officially Autism Awareness Month but living next door to the US media giant many Canadians receive more media coverage during April than October. Given the state funded CBC's obsession in the past few years with promoting the Neurodiversity, "WE don't want a cure", ideology of some persons with HFA and Aspergers Disorder that is not necessarily a bad thing.
But whether the coverage arises from Canada, the US or the UK, it is very difficult to find news or features about persons on the severely autistic end of "the spectrum", those whose diagnoses are not in doubt, and who are doomed to lives of dependency, some in high security community residences and some in full scale institutional care. Contrary to some of the loopy rhetoric out there severely autistic persons do not reside in institutional care and then become autistic. They are there because their autistic deficits are so severe that they can not live safely in the community. There are some autistic adults who require institutional care for their own safety, security and well being.
If I missed a recent news article discussing the plight of the severely autistic, particularly severely autistic adults, amongst the thousands of Autism Awareness Month features, please feel free to forward to me a link.
Here, in Canada October is officially Autism Awareness Month but living next door to the US media giant many Canadians receive more media coverage during April than October. Given the state funded CBC's obsession in the past few years with promoting the Neurodiversity, "WE don't want a cure", ideology of some persons with HFA and Aspergers Disorder that is not necessarily a bad thing.
But whether the coverage arises from Canada, the US or the UK, it is very difficult to find news or features about persons on the severely autistic end of "the spectrum", those whose diagnoses are not in doubt, and who are doomed to lives of dependency, some in high security community residences and some in full scale institutional care. Contrary to some of the loopy rhetoric out there severely autistic persons do not reside in institutional care and then become autistic. They are there because their autistic deficits are so severe that they can not live safely in the community. There are some autistic adults who require institutional care for their own safety, security and well being.
If I missed a recent news article discussing the plight of the severely autistic, particularly severely autistic adults, amongst the thousands of Autism Awareness Month features, please feel free to forward to me a link.
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