Breakthrough on adult diagnosis in Aberdeen

Aberdeen has been suffering for years a local unjust failure of service re such an important basic as adult access to diagnosis. Doctors have not been available for it, folks have needed to seek access to service from other regions unless they had the means for privately. This affecting such an essential life fairness as employment support.

NAS holding a conference there in 2015 budged nothing, nor even prevented the OSS there (which they ran) closing down! But now the local paper has budged the local NHS, as a follow-on benefit from a campaigning victory on ADHD. It reports this breakthrough in NHS acknowledgement of service duty: NHS Grampian commits to adult autism diagnosis.

Why does it say it is important that folks cease to need to present to mental health service? Of course it's important that autistics are not mental, but that service is long established one of the commonest sources for diagnoses. GP referral to it. If Aberdeen folks have been referrable to mental health, and have been diagnosable by it, then there is no form of words that makes sense, that they could use to reject diagnosing the folks who were not going to stay on the mental health service for something else. Yet that is what the article reads like saying they used to do.

The principle of accessing adult diagnosis is importantly universal everywhere, Aberdeen's experience this far into the autism aware era has been staggering. This is the turning point of their acknowledging this principle for a maltreated place.

adult diagnosis in another East Coast city

It is obviously out of order for budgeting decisions in NHS and Scottish government to leave no diagnosis service functioning at all for aspie adults in Aberdeen. So that some who can afford so have even been paying hundreds of pounds (which go towards what the hell?) for private diagnoses.

This is one of the places that has a drop-in One Stop Shop since the second round of them opening. It is practising well, setting a good standard, by extending help to adults who can't access diagnosis. The whole scene should think so.

Adults who were not picked up as kids, wherever they are, are visibly entitled to be recognised now and supported the same as they can see happening in other places such as here in Edinburgh. A service's existence in another location is factual evidence and grounds to cite your entitlement to it too. Referrals out of area should be happening to obtain diagnoses. Where is Aberdeen's local autism plan, it's required to have one, addressing sorting this scandal out?

NO UNIFORM. There is a place that has learnt.

Apr 6:THERE IS NO SCHOOL UNIFORM IN THE SHETLAND ISLANDS, ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN COUNCIL !!

Question remains how effectively they have prevented there being informal uniforms effected by peer pressure. But as regards formal uniforms, their own Executive Manager of Additional Support Needs and Early Years says "we do not have a school uniform policy in our schools, and pupils are free to wear what they wish.

Our teachers receive training on strategies to support our pupils with autism, which includes awareness of sensory issues."

Like the case of sensory issue which Luke Beardon cited in his address to the NAS conference in Aberdeen on Mar 27, of an autistic man with a shorts sensitivity who he had met through the NAS, who was prevented being able to focus on any exams and had his school outcome destroyed entirely by a trousers uniform that made his knees feel "on fire." A so clear obvious abuse that I am circulating it as the inescapable clincher against uniforms.

Apr 27: Glasgow too. "confirm we have no policy or school rule that would prevent the wearing of shorts". But again NO WORD on the critical biggie of preventing of PEER GROUP oppression, by allowing every pupil to opt out of any class or social circle who would persecute their personal choice by the undemocratic ape means of RIBALDRY.