This will help autistic people receive help that works for them and avoid detention inside ATUs or inpatient mental health hospitals. She could not understand why her focus and passion, which had always won her praise in the past, was now causing “deep worry and deep scrutiny”. Newborn baby girl is found dead in a pub toilet: Police launch urgent hunt for mother after discovery during.

I knew there was nothing really wrong with me, so I contacted a retired GP who was a family friend and asked him to help me escape.Quinn says that she does understand that autism can be difficult “but it is difficult because what we value in society and the way we organise our environment makes it difficult. It ended with a triumph over stigma, marginalisation, human rights abuses and a daring escape to Africa! Quinn wants autistic women to know the options that are available and that they have a right to family life.

The government’s draft mental health bill includes measures that would mean autistic people and people with learning difficulties would not be able to be detained under the act unless they also had a diagnosed mental health condition, or they were being assessed for one. Former actor Laurence Fox to discover his fate today as judge rules on High Court libel battle with two.Alexis Quinn, who is autistic herself, told MPs and peers this week that proposed new mental health legislation could have the opposite effect than intended if community support was not also improved under the government reforms. I was not mentally ill, I was an autistic adult reacting to difficult events that had happened in my life, but I was treated like the way I was reacting was ‘wrong’.

Aimee Grant from Swansea University, Autistic UK, MARG, Autistic Doctors UK and a truly remarkable group of Autistic parents and professionals on the "Autistic Pregnancy Birth and Beyond: Your Questions Answered" project.I remember that there are people like me being detained for their difference and so I thank my lucky stars that at present, I am enjoying relative freedom.