Doom and Gloom thread

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Thankfully, the NAS has come a long way in the past decade. The same can;t be said for a lot of places in the world though: Canada is officially the worst place in the western industrialised world to be Autistic and the US is mental about mental health.

Japan I heard is quite good; the prime minister was forced to apoligise for making disapraging remarks about Autistics I hear.

Canada IS the worst place for AS!

Noone seems to know or care much. If you tell anyone that you have a very mild type of autism they usually either laugh (because they don't equate a talking, functional person with autism) or they just think you are stupid and start baby talking to you.

erm... it's my thread, originally, and so i SHALL say this:

this is a thread about celebrating some good news. could we keep the doom and gloom stuff for elsewhere, please? let's have at least one thread which is positive - there's enough horror about having AS sometimes, and plenty of other places for it.

a polite request.

ta.

this thread is now available for anyone who wishes to be negative about good news. feel free to share tales of woe without being off topic!

enjoy!

dunc

How the hell did I become the thread author?! !

I thought I was posting to someone else's thread and now it's gone all weird on me!! !

You posted off-topic, so the moderators split off your thread. if you want more details, talk to Duncvis.

Archmage

So did you, the only difference was that you knew you were doing it. I wish I'd been told to my face instead of this though.

Excuse me, was that comment directed at me?

Archmage

sorry lucas, wasn't trying to embarrass you or single you out, unfortunately yours was the post at the top of the split....

I just shifted the off topic posts off the original thread, but forgot to PM you and let you know... nobodys perfect

dunc

It was a bit upsetting but I don't take it personally, it's just something that happened.

Archmage, that's fightin' talk. Don't make me wup you in an emcee-battle. Word!

Don't make me use my powers now... You won't like it when i use them...

I think in the US, only a few states do anything useful or have programs or organizations or help at least a decent amount of it. Most all the research, organizations, or help programs in the US seem to be centered in Mass., Kansas, Pennsylvania, to name a few. I don't think my state is up to that level yet. Its probably the same with nations, some nations seem to have or do more for ASDs than others like Great Britain and Japan.