Kathy Lord

And there was an autism self-advocate and then a bunch of other people from different agencies.

When I say group home, I'm thinking of like four or five people who live in a house with like two other people who are helping take care of them.

I felt like they didn't understand that these are people that have nowhere to live except with their parents who are getting older and can't take care of them.

But I think the idea that they were representing autism

as if they were experts on all forms of autism.

That was certainly something that I had a hard time with that I won't forget.

So we were, I mean, Lancet offered us the opportunity to set up an international commission across disciplines.

And then there was a lot of discussion about what on earth we call this.

I do think it has backfired to some degree.

The whole idea of autism awareness, those are things that are really good, but I do think that we have contributed unwittingly to having diagnoses that are very complicated.

I mean, I don't know what to do, you know, how to solve this, because I think the solution is not linear.

It's not going to be you're in this group, you're in that group.

I mean, there aren't two groups.

I don't think we could agree on three groups.

or four groups.

How do we move forward?

I don't know.

No, thank you.

Thank you.