RE: A lack of Focus12 Jul 2025 11:12
Toonman, "Evidence suggests that autism may be genetic." Note "may". There is no evidence to suggest it is per se. You are making out that it is genetic per se. That quote comes from the National Autistic Society themselves.
My gripe isn't about autism itself, it's the processes surrounding it, and it's about the number of people who are trying to claim they are autistic to simply get benefits, my gripe in particular is about the benefit system, and where do we draw the line, and how do we distinguish, ie a condition as opposed say to an illness?
I note you didn't answer when I asked if you were claiming benefit for your child for autism. You side stepped that. And then there's carers allowance. A lot of us cared for people who were ill without receiving a penny 20/30 years ago, now everyone and his dog thinks they should be entitled to payments for caring and all the rest of it. If we pay this for each and every person who makes a claim for autism, and similar, and it seems it's not that difficult to do so, for instance, there's a girl on tik tok, telling people how easy it is to claim for autism, and she's getting 13k pa for doing so. This is where the system is so broken. I'm not decrying autism itself as a diagnosis, if all the safeguards are met, but the problem is the experts are frightened to turn people down, in case they get sued, and I've been told this by a psychologist, and I question how a child at the age of 1, and statemented at 2, when they are still going through the developmental processes, can be fully assessed as autistic, and particularly so when there is no clear cut evidence that it is hereditary, the jury is still out on that one and may be for some time to come.
ollycromwell, I've explained above. I'm not decrying autism at all if it's a genuine diagnosis, with safeguards built in relating to the diagnosis, and not just an attempt to manipulate the benefits system.
There's always different perspectives on everything, and both sides and points of view should be considered. If you're a tax payer, then your taxes are going to rise exponentially, because the benefits system is at breaking point, and at some point, and soon, the govt will have to stand firm, and re-draw the lines for claims and payments and what will be allowed and what won't. For a start, I think benefits claimants, should pay and provide their own medical experts report, for the govt to then consider and counter if necessary. If it were court proceedings, the claimant would have to provide their own evidence, so I do feel at the very least, that benefit claimants should provide their own medical experts report for submission with their claim. That will weed some of the wheat out from the chaff for a start.
I'm finished now on this. They are my perspectives and opinions, and I want to make that clear.
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