Breaking through the Barriers of Autism: Many autistic people are excluded from many social activities which many neuro-typical people would see as fundamental human rights. We talk about the ‘right to work’ or the ‘right to an education’ yet the National Autistic Society estimated in 2001 that only 6 per cent of autistic people are in full-time employment and that the school exclusion rate for autistic children is more than 20 times the national average (Barnard et al. 2001). Autistic people are to be labeled as ‘habitual complainants’ or ‘too challenging’, or even ‘too different’, and as a result denied access to the very public services which are designed to support them. Most neuro-typical people have consequently never had the opportunity to expose these myths which surround autistic people and to discover that autistic people may not have difficulties experiencing any of these ‘stereotypical features’, but rather they express these intense feelings and......

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Title: Autism Spectrum
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