The Government created an Autism Act in 2009 for adults on the autistic spectrum. Then it created an adults Autism Strategy (ironically entitled “Leading Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives”) in 2010, to remind authorities that there was an Autism Act and that they were meant to be adhering to it – just spelling it out sort of thing. When people kept on reporting that things still weren’t being done as they were supposed to, despite the Act and the Strategy, the Government next created their “Think Autism” Strategy in 2014 just to remind them again (just how dense can these people be!). What is all this achieving? The Government can hold it’s hands up and say, “Look, we made a law for you, we did our bit, look how seriously we are taking this.” …We all know what the term ‘lip service’ means though.
Some autistic adults are getting deflected…
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