Dr. Rachel Moseley

No, my absolute pleasure.

Oh, I've been working on a few different things.

So I have a couple of different projects I'm working on.

I do a lot of work around suicide and self-injury.

And so we've done some...

quite big work here in the UK trying to identify what autistic people think we should focus on in order to prevent suicide.

But then I've also been doing a few different things in the kind of menopause space.

And so we've recently published a book, which we hope will help people.

So that's been really positive as well.

Yes, exactly.

They are my two subjects.

Yes.

It's really hard to tell if rates of suicide are changing in autistic people.

It's hard to tell for multiple reasons because often, certainly in the UK, it takes us a long time to find out if a death was suicide.

It has to go through a coroner's office and a lot of suicides are not

actually recognised as suicides and hence we never get to hear about them.

So typically the reporting on suicide is always a few years late and as such we're not aware of any change in the rates of autistic people who die by suicide and of course many more.

consider suicide and attempt suicide but don't die.

Quite awfully, in terms of UK statistics, we have a statutory process called National Child Mortality Database, where for every child that dies, there has to be a sort of statutory investigation of the death.

And so that was released.