This is my first comment on LW, so apologies if I haven't understood the new commenter material well enough. I'm in the US so I can't speak to UK specific laws or culture. From my research before I got diagnosed there is quite a bit of exaggerated rhetoric in online autism communities about discrimination in immigrating, like claiming that entire countries prohibit autistic people from immigrating when the actual policy is "you can't have >$X annual health care costs," which some high support needs autistics might reach but high functioning people will not. Skepticism is almost always the right approach to stories of outright discrimination in this area.
This is my first comment on LW, so apologies if I haven't understood the new commenter material well enough. I'm in the US so I can't speak to UK specific laws or culture. From my research before I got diagnosed there is quite a bit of exaggerated rhetoric in online autism communities about discrimination in immigrating, like claiming that entire countries prohibit autistic people from immigrating when the actual policy is "you can't have >$X annual health care costs," which some high support needs autistics might reach but high functioning people will not. Skepticism is almost always the right approach to stories of outright discrimination in this area.
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