Vulnerable Asperger's sufferer....

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Vulnerable Asperger's sufferer with phobia of food found dead weighing just 5st months after he was judged fit to work and had benefits cut.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... s-cut.html

I am confused about how he died. So he starved himself? Was he too afraid to leave his house to get food or what? How did cutting him off cause this? Or did he have money anxiety so he didn't spend it on food and died?

There is also a thread about this in the PPR forum:

UK: Autistic man starves to death-Why? Benefits cut by ATOS

where were the social services mental health team? there needs to be an enquiry,he shoud have been a service user of theirs as he clearly needed MH support.

as for his benefits being removed by ATOS,this is exactly why had personaly gone and protested in manchester at a demonstration outside their building recently- http://theresidentialautist.blogspot.co ... eople.html
have luckily never had any bad experiences of them due to being easily recognised as severely disabled but have been long aware of thousands of people having died through suicide and health deterioration after ATOS found them wrongly fit for work,its disgusting.
those bstards had the cheek to say those of us who protested were threatening them with death,had known people from every protest in the UK and they were all peaceful demonstrations, however they have now dropped their contract so another comission chasing team will soon take over and will no doubt carry on affecting vulnerable adults lives.

I read the PPR thread too. It's good people are angry, I guess.

But I am frightened and sad this could happen. Without knowing more details, it sounds like the sort of situation where a lot of people were peripherally aware there was a problem, he had perhaps some reluctance to accept help, but I think this is very likely a situation of many people knowing, but no one taking responsibility to go above and beyond when it was truly needed and finding a way to help. Quite possibly no one did anything exactly wrong, either. But quite likely someone along the way doing more than their job and more than was quite comfortable would have let this man live.

I am often accused of being too needy, there's a lot of pressure on me don't complain, yet sometimes things people tell me are nothing are too much for me. I have never had a food phobia, but can remember feeling unable to eat and it was terribly frightening. I don't know what his experience was, but I felt terrified and completely alone. And then one person took responsibility, and cared. Not because it was her job to care, it was not. She just did it.

We can all do that, make a difference, in this moment, for someone.

Or we can be like most people and turn away, because it's too much time, too annoying, or because we assume someone else will take care of a problem if necessary.

Sometimes there is no one else. Someone was the last person to speak to this man. I so hope they were words of kindness and that he was not ignored. That as he lay dying, he could reflect on something good from somewhere. And not on being nothing.

I know I'm displaying my ignorance here, but how much is 5 stones in pounds?

Cameron and IDS must be very pleased... it is what they want.