Autistic man locked on hospital psych ward waiting for home

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Joined: 25 Aug 2013
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Posts: 36,784
Location: Long Island, New York

08 Dec 2016, 12:00 am

A 22-year-old man with autism endures lock-down conditions on hospital psych ward while waiting for a group home space.

How far we have come
This is now considered outragous enough to be news. A few decades ago this was the near universal recommandation by the experts

How far we have to go
This shows how society does not know how to, or does not want to make us a true part of them

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Professionally Identified and joined WP August 26, 2013
DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity

“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman

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Joined: 17 Jul 2004
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Posts: 117,539
Location: In my little Olympic World of peace and love

11 Dec 2016, 9:27 pm

The more things change, the more they stay the same. It just comes to show now little things have changed for us, over the past 30 years.

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