Comments on: You can now raise money for autism by… talking

By: Karen Varga

Karen Varga — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:49:56 +0000

Autism is a life-long condition – children with autism grow into adults with autism who are also excluded from society and their families still struggle. Please remember those people. Also it is not ‘imagination’ per se that is affected – it is ’social imagination’ many people on the autism spectrum (which is very wide and encompasses people of a variety of abilities) have good imaginations – but like factual things as they are more predictable.

Please keep up the campaigning as it is vitally important – but please don’t forget those who have passed the age of 18 who are on the autism spectrum – they must be included and supported, as often they receive much less help and support than children on the spectrum do.

By: Lynn Rogers

Lynn Rogers — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:37:21 +0000

I knew nothing about autism until my brother had first one and then a second autistic child. He is cycling from Lands end to John o’groats starting on the 1st July to raise money for his children’s treatment, and my sister-in-law is my hero for her never ending energy in running after her children all the time. Their eldest child Ella has digestion and bowel trouble too. Neither child speaks. Ella is learning scant sign language. I applaud any foundation that can help this widely misunderstood condition.

By: Lynn Goodfellow

Lynn Goodfellow — Sun, 23 May 2010 23:59:03 +0000

I understand how people are critical as i have a nephew who has aspergers, me and others in my family used to think he was badly behaved, it was a new head teacher who after only being at the school 2 weeks had an idea, my nephew was 12 by then and in his last year at primary hes now 17 doing his higher exams and moving up to 6th year, hindsight is a great thing.