There is a new campaign running in which the NAS are asking us to email our local MP to tell them why we need the DLA (Disability Living Allowance) to not be cut for adults with autism.
I have already clicked the link they sent me via email, and it only took me a few minutes to complete.
The NAS send it on to your relevant MP so there is no worry about having to try to find their email address for yourself.
The link is as follows -
http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=10&ea.campaign.id=9629&ea.param.extras=URLTracking:campaignemail
You have a chance to express your own personal reasons for asking for this vital benefit not to be scrapped.
You also have a chance to do something positive. It is not too much of an effort to click, type and click.
Those precious few minutes of your time will make a difference.
I mentioned in my message that autistics do not become cured or grow out of autism the day they turn 18 years old.
Just because an autist reaches adulthood, it does not change the fact they have a life long disability.
My J will still need me to hold his hand when he is thirty years old and we are crossing the road.
He will still need me to ensure his personal hygiene when he is forty years old.
He will always need someone to be with him, day and night, even when he is fifty years old.
He will not become conversant and will still need me to speak up for him when he is sixty years old.
Why are this government hell bent on destroying our disabled community?
Are they attempting to take us back to the time when we locked them all up - 'out of sight,out of mind'. Where they cannot access the community. Where they live a poor (monetary poor) existence with no luxuries, treats or time away from the home.
Or are they so bloody minded and ill informed that they think because (for the most) autists look 'normal' on the outside, the disability is over hyped, over blown and we are all just over exaggerating?
So go on, please, just click the link (or copy and paste into your bar at the top of your page). If everyone stands up and shouts they will have to listen.
I can assure you the link is correct (at the time of blogging, a few months/years it may have expired) and is not a spoof, a fake, a virus or anything so nasty.
