Hunger Strike

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I am on day four of a hunger strike to protest at my treatment by Bradford District Care Trust. i feel my rights as person with Asperger Syndrome are not respected.

More to the point they have just taken a decision in my treatment which is causing me sgnificant distress and pain.

With no notice what so ever they have removed the person working with me who has worked with me for two years. I asked them to manage the change in planned way and they refused. he worked with me for two yeats and they did nto even let me say good bye.

I alsed the head of service why and he woudl nto say. All he siad was that it was notihing to do wiith me as a service user. So I have done nothing wrong yet they have done this to me,

They have told me I can complain but I care nothing for this i just want them to put it right. and let me see him to at least say goodbye.


Please show your support for me if you feel able by sending me an email to [email protected]

It sounds like they found a better job and quit. It also sounds like you were more attached to them than they were to you. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but now I suggest you go get a cheeseburger and fries.

A hunger strike assumes they want you alive. Do you have any reason to think they do?

Ah, well. I wish you luck.

Hi its not about attachment iits aout the right ot have your needs respected , No they di dnot get a new job this was done in retaliaiton fo rcomplaining.


No I do not htink they want me to live becuase they care they just do not want the public embarressment of being seen to not treat people well. They are a health care trust after all charged with a duty of care to prtoect peoples mental and emotioanl well being.

I kno they are not goign to chnage thier mind people liek that do not thi sis about a legal and respctfil way of leting th public kow why they really are and the harm they cause.Hunger strike

As you have internet access, I suggest that you look to the National Autistic Society:
http://www.autism.org.uk/

Under "Our Services", "Advice and Support" they have an "Autism Helpline". There, they give an"email enquiry service", which you should be able to cope with.

This is a direct link to the page, which might work.

It's a pity they seem to have this buried so deep inside the website. Even a telephone call can be a complete waste of time / impossibility for many people on the spectrum.

You should ask for access to an independent advocate. This is where the NAS may be able to directly help, if your local care trust are not supplying such an advocate.

I really don't feel that a hunger strike is going to be of any use.

I would give up on the hunger strike. If anything it might back fire on you. My yadvice would be to swallow your pride and go have a meal.

They might try to use the mental health law in the UK to lock you up. Their possible line of reasoning might work like this

1. You are refusing to eat.
2. You are danger of death or serious harm as a result of not eating
3. You have a disorder of the mind
4. You are a mentally ill person who is a threat to themselves
5. As a mentally ill person who is a threat to themselves or others you need to be placed in a hospital for treatment/management.
6. As you do not want to go into a secure part of the hospital, they will now use the mental health law to force you into hospital.

my gp is supportive and knows I am sane as does a consultant I have spoken to.

it is interesting that no one here is supportive, apert form the advice about nas thank you for that.

the issue is to let people know they do not meet the needs of people with aspegers at all in this district there is not service and there is active prejuidce wihtin the service.

I htink that is worth fighting for.

4 asiam men drovr up and left me food and water. the publc care even if people here do not

Ghandi went on hunger strike.

What did you originally complain about that they would retaliate over?

Justice, I DO care. I'm just worried that a hunger strike will do more harm than good. If you starve yourself, you'll just end up dead or sick, and what good will that do? A hunger strike only works IF THEY WANT YOU ALIVE. You've said yourself that they don't. This is the wrong way to go about this. I don't know what the right way is, though... I'm sorry.

You could be right JB, but I suspect it might me more likely the person was fired given the language used to explain the situation. That's the same language used by just about every company to explain to anyone why certain employees are no longer available when they have actually been involuntarily dismissed.

"I asked the head of service why and he wouldn't say." (Classic!)

"...nothing to do with me as a service user..." (Also classic language after an employee has been let go)

I was on hunger strike for 20 days.

I am eatling but I am still protesting/

you were right he was not dismmsied but they have investigated him

they did not tell me why

they had no concern fo rht impact on me

I have the support of the autism service for the fight agaisnt discrmination

someone in London has also alreted the regulatory body whichover sees the Ca re trust

There behaviour to me as a person woith Autism is terrible and I recorded them being abusive on a recorder so I can if nothign is done relaesse it to the public/


I just want justice and help. thats all decent treatment on the the NHS as I am entitled to. An honnest investigation into miscondcut.

I will go back to public protest outside their head office with a huge banner of tey do nothing.


Will anyone help me by signing a petition for a fair and independent investigation.

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/aspergerjustice


Please help me. I am alone and in acute mental distress. I am not able to access mental health services due to fear of being harmed and victimised. This has come out of an original misdiagnosis and then compounded by the fact that staff make mistakes and then become aggressive and defensive when openly challenged. I do not have the capacity to be anything other than honest and direct with people and ask them to put it right.

This has deteriorated since I eventually was force to speak out and formally complain into active victimisation by one senior manager.

They do not understand my personality or difference are due to Autism and they do not respect my needs and so provoke me by their actions into meltdown and autistic mental health crisises
Then offer me no help as they see this as my fault and due to misconduct. They refuse to see this as illness and disability.

I only ask for people who understand my disability to treat me now especially while I I am so mentally fragile and ill and my Asperger and autism symptoms are so acute as a result/

- they have good people with the district who who could intervene and treat me but they work in learning difficulties and not adult mental health.

If you ask maybe they will on a temporary basis help me while I am as I am now in acute inner pain to support me. I want a peaceful and non confrontational no blame resolution were people learn from the mistakes and help me so I can then go on to help it so that no one has to go through what I am going through now.

Dunno what to say, Justice. If there's anything an anonymous stranger on the internet can do, let me know and I'll do it.