Autism cases are at an all-time high in the UK with one in every hundred people thought to be autistic. Are You Autistic? Channel 4 2018
Experts now believe thousands of people may be living with autism that don’t know it … a lost generation missed by the system. ibid.
Our spectrum is a mix of interconnected but very different things that shape how we perceive the world around us and how we appear to the outside world. ibid.
Getting a diagnosis in the UK is really really hard. ibid.
Social masking can be effective and could be one of the reasons why so many women go undiagnosed. ibid.
Heightened senses can be a real problem for us. ibid.
A beautiful woodland scene. But what I see is different. Because I’m seeing every trunk, every branch, I’m seeing the connections between them … and that’s because I’m autistic. Inside Our Autistic Minds I, BBC 2023
There could be as many as 700,000 autistic people in the UK. ibid.
The huge mental health toll placed on autistic women by the wider world. ibid.
Those differences in how we think, in how we communicate, and in how we process the world, can make life a real challenge. Inside Our Autistic Minds II
There are over 700,000 autistic people in the UK. Autistic people are six times more likely to experience a mental health crisis than the general population and nine times more like to take their own lives. Dispatches: Locked Away: Our Autism Scandal, The Lancet article, Channel 4 2023
So why are we locking up some autistic people in hospitals when it can cause them harm? ibid.