Autism Awareness Special-: Do the Emergency Services need better understanding of Autism?
You might have seen in The Observer this Sunday an article about how the police 'need more training' when it comes to their treatment of autistic people. It's an issue like anything to do with Aspergers and indeed autism that I feel needs to be taken into consideration and although we are getting there slowly with public awareness of autism there is a point where we need to address the services we may need to rely on in the future. From what I understand from the article itself written by journalist Jamie Doward is that in order for autistic people to feel comfortable and have a better trust in the police, the police first need to understand what it is like to live with autism. I have in the past thought about this subject in depth before and have had instances where I have told a police officer that I am autistic and have received a confused look and a bad attitude to go with it. I am not in anyway saying that the police are in the wrong or that they are a