Understanding The Links Between Mental Health And Autism

Autism doesn’t have to define a person. Artists are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Adrienne Bailon

Mental health and autism is probably something that many outside of the autistic community wouldn’t fully understand because like I have previously said, mainstream media, the NHS or the UK government, they don’t really like to talk their failures when it comes to Autistic people.

I would make this a stat fest but this isn’t the way to do this. As someone who knows people who have had their Autism dismissed by many organisations in favour of blaming mental health or just plain bad behaviour. I have seen it happen to people I know and love, it’s probably happened to yourself or someone you may know or care deeply about.

Here’s the thing about Autism and mental health: the previous treatment that Autistic people have faced in the past, such as systematic lock ups within institutions, lobotomies and the fact that we were never seen as equals for a long time. There can be no doubt that the damage done in the past cannot be undone, no matter how deep in the archives you have to dig.

People who have been ignored before finally being diagnosed would probably have told you that as a result of the ignoring has done a lot of damage emotionally, mentally and physically as they simply asked people to stop ignoring them, other things getting blamed so that they can be dismissed as just another ‘problem’.

But understanding the link between Autism and Mental Health is always going to be difficult as not everybody thinks the same way.

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