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Non-visible disabilities
Hidden disabilities
Yes!
I'm so glad I found this! I was never sure about invisible disabilities because they rarely are invisible.
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What does everyone else think about 'invisible'?
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anisty, thanks for the correction and the explaining π (I write slowly)
egister none of us is invisible even to a blind person.
My thread is not about terminology but language. This from the NAS
ACCEPT DIFFERENCE NOT INDIFFERENCE
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Does it follow from this that you do not understand what I have written as much as I do?
Correct. We are dealing with translation into English. Autistic into allistic is hard work. I don't usually answer questions on the forum and this is why!
How do you decrypt the NAS? Network Attached Storage, Non-access stratum, Network Audio System??? National Autistic Society
Having had a later in life diagnosis of Autism in 2021, hidden disabilities are very real, yet the attitudes of society in general, employers and even in the medical (physical health) profession is that if health conditions are not visible (including mental health) then they are deemed to not exist, are deemed as not real, not relevant and the person is deemed to be βtalking nonsenseβ - there is a point-blank refusal to be educated nor to understand anything about hidden disabilities and the issues around same and there clearly is a lot of prejudice and discrimination out there regarding these issues - if we try to ask for reasonable adjustments we are told to βbe quietβ and similar and are not regarded as having a genuine disability - even having a post-diagnostic assessment for adult autism (which is so important) is both an impossibility and is denied for no valid reason in all cases, even though this is essential and vital for obtaining appropriate adult autism support - best practice does not even exist in the private sector for autism diagnosis (which also requires a GP referral) and we are left to muddle through life and trying to find appropriate support via non-profit organisations with so many of the support services geared almost exclusively to childrenβs autism - as more people are diagnosed later in life, this is going to create serious problems in later years with an elderly autistic population who are going to need enhanced support - being a traditional Irish Catholic myself, I no longer believe that we live in a caring, civilised society underpinned by basic moral and ethical values
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