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Unbroken: Learning to Live Beyond Diagnosis (Inspirational Series)

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I knew there was nothing really wrong with me, so I contacted a retired GP who was a family friend and asked him to help me escape. Once in Nigeria, Quinn set about rebuilding her life, far out of the reach of the UK’s Mental Health Act. It was a disaster for Harry when he was rushed back to Britain after his Afghan tour of duty was leaked.

Alexis Quinn was a school teacher of over ten years, former professional athlete and author of her ground-breaking memoir, Unbroken and now , Autistic and Expecting. Reflecting on the treatment of those with autism and/or learning disabilities, she says we all need “to stop confusing trauma and difference for madness”. The turnover of staff in the ATU was so high that it was difficult to sustain any meaningful therapeutic relationships.I needed someone to not judge my reactions to things and for someone to realise that I had lost my structure and routine. I sought help from my GP and after a year and a half of misdiagnosis and mistreatment I was lucky that an autism specialist witnessed one of my meltdowns and recognised my condition immediately. Former actor Laurence Fox to discover his fate today as judge rules on High Court libel battle with two. As time went by, she realised that the care she thought was going to help her, might just be the very thing that would destroy her. I loved swimming’s precision, from the carefully calculated biomechanics of each stroke to the timing, measured in hundredths of a second, as well as the way the water felt as I moved through it.

It’s much quicker and easier to lock somebody in a room than to talk things through, identify triggers in the environment, and make some adjustments. Told repeatedly by doctors that she was dangerous, Alexis tried to become the person the system wanted her to be: someone normal.I needed someone to help me create a new structure and assist me in seeing my new reality: a life without my brother and a life with my daughter. Autistic woman and author of the memoir Unbroken, Alexis Quinn, spent three years “locked inside” various mental health hospitals, including Assessment and Treatment Units (ATU). I have always been a respected member of both, yet for a while I was cast as the “crazy autistic person. But what I really want to make clear is that there isn’t the right support and the right environment in this country at the moment.

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