{"id":66,"date":"2019-10-19T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndsa.uk\/wordpress-test\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2019-10-19T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T14:44:29","slug":"what-is-the-need-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/what-is-the-need-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ndsa.uk\/wordpress-test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Whatistheneed-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344\" width=\"1024\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Whatistheneed-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Whatistheneed-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Whatistheneed-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Whatistheneed-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Whatistheneed-2048x1282.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><h5>Autistic people experience &nbsp;<\/h5><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"ndsaFontList\"><li> Staggeringly lower life expectancy (53.9 years vs 70.2 in general population).<\/li><li> High suicide rate [2] and high suicide risk. 40% of adults who attempted suicide self-reported high autistic traits. 41% of autistic children showed signs of suicide ideation.\n<\/li><li> High rate of mental health problems.<\/li><li> Only 16% of autistic people are employed while 77% want to work.<\/li><li>Autistic adults are vulnerable to many types of negative life experience, including employment difficulties, financial hardship, domestic abuse and \u2018mate-crime\u2019. Individuals with the highest number of negative life experiences also experienced the highest number of current anxiety and depression symptoms and the lowest current life satisfaction.\n<\/li><li>Financial hardship: 45% of autistic adults said they had had a period of life without enough money to meet basic needs, compared to 25% of the non-autistic adults. \n<\/li><li>Domestic abuse: 20% of autistic adults that had been in a relationship had been sexual abused by their partner, compared to 9% of the non-autistic adults, and \u2018mate-crime\u2019: 70% said they had been bullied by someone they considered to be a friend, compared to 31% of the non-autistic adults.\n<\/li><li>78% of autistic adults experienced sexually abuse, &#8211; an almost three-fold increased risk; sexual perpetrators actively target ND individuals. \n<\/li><li> Lower quality of life (QoL) than the general population in the UK.<\/li><li> Being in a relationship and receiving support, being employed, and having someone to talk to, someone to do things with are positive predictors of Qol<\/li><li>Better wellbeing in adults correlate with positive autism identity, understanding and recognition of contribution to society, perceived belonging, perceived social support and autism-led spaces, i.e. being amongst autistic people. \n<\/li><li> Alternatively, interventions aimed at neurotypical populations that promote ASD acceptance may lead to increased QoL that is not dependent on autistic people changing who they are. <\/li><li> \u201cThis research highlights the challenges that autistic adults face in our society. With the right support many of these events are preventable\u201d, said Sarah Griffiths. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autistic people experience &nbsp; Staggeringly lower life expectancy (53.9 years vs 70.2 in general population). High suicide rate [2] and high suicide risk. 40% of adults who attempted suicide self-reported high autistic traits. 41% of autistic children showed signs of suicide ideation. High rate of mental health problems. Only 16% of autistic people are employed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/what-is-the-need-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Nelly123","author_link":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/author\/nelly123\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"Autistic people experience &nbsp; Staggeringly lower life expectancy (53.9 years vs 70.2 in general population). High suicide rate [2] and high suicide risk. 40% of adults who attempted suicide self-reported high autistic traits. 41% of autistic children showed signs of suicide ideation. High rate of mental health problems. Only 16% of autistic people are employed&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}