To not recognise Kemi Badenoch's views on ASD?

Maybe we should ask what them what the weather is like in Russia.

All you need to do is pay to see a private specialist, which is what people with money do to skip the NHS waiting lists of several years. Then you look at what sort of questions will be asked (ADOS assessments for example are standard), then you make sure you are able to answer those questions in a way that means you will be "diagnosed". Then you have an assessment that stands up in court, to your GP, to get benefits. I assure you that it is triflingly easy to do.

I'm a card carrying mental, I didn't need to fake it. I promise you many many people get a diagnosis they do not really need.

TTFN

As you've been through the WCA you'd know you can't get sickness benefits just for being a bit anxious.

So did you get your diagnosis because you're autistic? Or did you get it by paying and manipulating someone?

I dont think you know anything about EHCPs or SN provision Zahariel.

No, it's a load of utter bollocks

And yet - it's still very, very true.

Getting any sort of diagnosis you want is a matter of paying the right people and saying the right things, nothing more. You can go online and look at people claiming the same things, reddit, anywhere, then you regurgitate those "facts" and lo - you have ADHD / Long Covid / ME / Anxiety - anything you like

I have my right-wing lunatic Mail/Express soundbite bingo card with me, and I claim a Full House.

You do know how Autistic people work right? We give literally zero shits what anyone else says about us.

Yeah its a spectrum, in fact its a complex 5-6 dimensional spectrum, not a line which is what everyone seems to think it is, from "cute at maths" to "needs 24 hour care"

I don't manage perfectly well. But I do manage to go to work every day unlike the lazy gits I see all around me who have persuaded their GP to sign them off or worse got some long term sickness cover just cos they feel. bit anxious.

Why would you have an EHCP Zahariel? Are you under 25?

I represent nobody but me. Everyone is different let alone autistic people.

You mean "I manage perfectly well so why can't everyone else"? Whilst ignoring the fact it's a spectrum.

I'm saying that autism has made me especially good at manipulating people to be perfectly honest.

I don't have an EHCP, but I could get one with trifling ease. Getting any sort of diagnosis you want is a matter of paying the right people and saying the right things, nothing more. You can go online and look at people claiming the same things, reddit, anywhere, then you regurgitate those "facts" and lo - you have ADHD / Long Covid / ME / Anxiety - anything you like.

I'm autistic. I run my own successful business. I have zero patience for lazy fakers and I seem to be surrounded by them

Then you should know that you are not representative of all autistic people. My son is also “just” autistic, diagnosed at age 3. He will never work or live independently, despite the fact that his education costs the LA more than a place at Eton because the current system is so utterly stacked against children unable to cope in mainstream.

"Labour are polling at 31, Tories and Reform combined polling at 41. It's not centrists who will win the next election, it's a tory party that embraces reforms immigration stance."
If you are combining polling I have no idea why you are ignoring the LDs and Greens.

I'm neither.

I've attended more WCA's than you've had hot dinners chum.

Well, then you sir are really very very gullible. And also generous with your taxes. I am not, on either count.

Yes, I do as it so happens.

I assure you that getting a EHCP is just a matter of saying the right things at the right time. Given my experience I was pretty good at it.

Are you saying you got your EHCP because you just said the right things at the right time and dont have autism at all @Zahariel?

Ex friends and family - surely you don't think that the exponential rise in people sitting on their arses doing fuck all whilst claiming sickness benefits is based on people really being sick do you?

So if they don't work for you, why are they surrounding you?

Both have been rejected by the 2024 electorate though.

If the tory party is to ever win again, I believe the person to do it has yet to be born.

Yep, apparently a woman is a scrounger stealing SMP from hardworking taxpayers 🙄

Sounds like she works in government.

I assure you that getting a EHCP is just a matter of saying the right things at the right time. Given my experience I was pretty good at it.

And this above. Why would you admit to taking the piss yourself then get pissed off that other people that do it? That's pretty dishonest and not fair on people in genuine need, but it doesn't mean everyone does it.

Given that people need tribunals now to just get assessed for an EHCP, I'm thinking this is not genuine. This is a 💩🤖

Labour are polling at 31, Tories and Reform combined polling at 41. It's not centrists who will win the next election, it's a tory party that embraces reforms immigration stance.