Calls for ‘barbaric’ treatment of autistic patients to end 

This is predicated on ancient views of autism which are sadly propagated by many influential organisations - we aren't sick, we aren't broken, we need support, not institutionalisation.

Please keep speaking out about this … hopefully things will change for the better

I was put in a cage for suicidal people. I was not suicidal. I asked for help and they broke me. I will never ask for help. They will never help.

I'm stunned. And my heart goes out to all those people, treated in this barbaric inhumane way. This should be stopped!

I'm a adult and I'm severely autistic so is my son. I wish people could understand

The places they are being detained are making £1000s a week thats why!

as someone who has autism myself I do find this sick and disgusting that people like myself are locked up and locked away from the outside world just because we are different and think in different way to other people its just wrong and it shouldn't be happening in this day and age it must end!

Anyone who treats anyone in a barbaric way in a medical field should be revoked.

im autistic and i find this disgusting and horrible. we are all still people, we just have certain needs and requirements.

Very sad this lady had to endure such treatment.

The whole mental health system needs reworking, so many go without help and then ones that try get treated like criminals

I'm Male I Have Autism I Was Diagnosed With Autism At Age 14 I'm 28 Years Old Now Iv'e Been Living Interdependently On My Own For 3 Years So Far I'm From The Uk United Kingdom

My 8 year old son is autistic what chance does he have in a Draconian system like this I'm very worried for my wee man incase he loses it in school and they just section him 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Totally agree this needs to be fixed immediately.

There’s too many people in the world that will take advantage no matter what scenario they are put in

Psychiatry the science of lies

also I would give flack to the injunction laws that stop families from fighting back and speaking out in such situations. The law is the one that's sick.

Nothing new sadly. Good ol’ Psychiatric practices doing their “best” for people. Absolute criminals.

This woman has been treated badly' but she has an advantage over the none verbal ' she can speak about what happened to her......I have a nephew who is none verbal and he was in residential care home' and it was only through his behaviour that my sister knew there was something going on in that place....she immediately took him out' and she later found out it was under investigation.....the right help is just not out there for ppl with autism...my sister now has to struggle with his behaviours which are at times violent' but she would rather that than put him in another residential care home....but she worries what will happen to him when she is no longer able to take care of him... it's a terrible situation to be in... ... .

Sections are dished out like sweeties.... It's disgraceful... prisoners are treated better.... Britain still thinks it's 1840. My heart goes out to those affected and their families x

What a wonderful spokeswoman for people with Autism, people with out Autism are missing out not getting to be around those with it.

I personally like to say Thankyou Sir Robert Buckland but for mine she now has Trauma, PTSD yes her anxiety has grown. xx

I admire this woman talking for real about her detention in the Mental health system. Its mind-blowing really. Ultra-important.

This is utterly shocking. I had no idea stuff like this was happening. I would be interested to know more about the circumstances that led to her being put in a mental health institution because she seems very calm, coherent and well spoken. Completely normal. What would have to happen to cause that?

This is shocking.

What an amazing woman, she needs to right a book

Police need training about mental health, especially autism

This is one of my greatest fears as an autistic person. That i have a melt down at the wrong place or with the wrong people, and get locked up in a psych ward for it

What is wrong with this country, seriously!

I thought Brittain treated people with disabilities with more respect and had better government programs .

In the late 1980's or early 1990's this problem was dealt with. Back then it was women held for decades for no reason other than getting pregnant out of wedlock, and other such barbaric reasons for locking people up. They ended the use of the old Victorian buildings, and opened up mental health wards in general hospitals, throwing institutionalised patients onto the streets, increasing the homeless population. Psychiatry has gone backwards since then, new psychiatric hospitals have been built and filled with Autistic people, drug addicts and alcoholics. I know because I've seen it. In the science lab, psychiatry may have a genuine purpose, but in the real world, it's completely useless. General Psychiatrists are lazy, and on the wards, so are the psychiatric nurses; all they do is stand around, between sitting on their backsides, looking important, but achieving nothing. The psychiatric ward is nothing but a way of giving employment to doctors and nurses who're not good enough to do proper healthcare; they're the ones who just about scraped through their exams, so they have to be given jobs, so the money spent on their training isn't completely wasted. They do all the same training as other doctors and nurses, but when all the good jobs are taken for specialist study, such as theatre work or A+E etc, they're left with the jobs those with better grades wouldn't look at at twice. Theatre nurses, practice nurses, surgeons, and General Practitioners have to know their stuff. As a psychiatrist, or psychiatric nurse, it really doesn't matter, all they need is to be able to sound clever, and as if they know what they're talking about; as a rule, people don't die when psychiatrists or psychiatric nurses make mistakes, and if they do, guess who takes the blame...

My son is being held in hospital in hampshire 😢

The police don't deal with mental health paients at all well putting them in the back of their cages in the back of their vans .

I knew it was bad, but I didn't think it was THAT bad.

My concern is the move away from institutionalization may just be substituting institutionalization for incarceration for autistic individuals with low(er) support needs.

My brother has autism, and I have cystic fibrosis if they all don't treat people with it with some humanity well there will be issues.

Having watched this report i see very strong case for this shocking and disgraceful treatment to end. Hope it does!

This is shocking. UK u r still living in dark age.

This is disgusting if that's whot our goverments and doing along with the National health this is a draconian treatment

NO EXCUSE 1312 STOP DRUGGING

Speak for the silenced

thank god i did my masters in international human rights law in the uk as an autistic i surbived

Shame! Shame! 😢 😔

Oliver McGowan died under NHS 'care'

letautismbeautism #depression #trauma #earlyintervention #nhs #earlydiagnosis #homelessness #anxiety #letautismbeautism

This must be a joke. This is truly Unbelievable.

Spot on Right Alexis xx

Psychiatric hospital's are glorified prison's anyway.

2022 UK 😡😡😡😡

Discusting defund the police

Promote the VERY informational movie about Temple Grandson, a woman with autism, who revolutionized the cattle industry.

Can’t believe

Bad manager Dr MDT team in NHS service not helpful in community let o zero

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum show that faith proves nothing.

As long as there is a cure made i dont care what the cost is

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Oh yes, it's clearly all that black and white. Let's all jump to massive conclusions because Sky news suggests we should

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Hate Tories but this ones right

If they are a threat to themselves or others, lock them up