Ms Davida Hartman:

As was said about the use of the word "disorder", we do not use this word at all in The Adult Autism Practice or in any of our reports or documentation. It is never necessary except for applying for disability services and in this case we write a separate letter. We do this and we talk to the people coming to us to say that we know the letter is awful, that we are so sorry and do not want to use this language but have to in order to access services. That is obviously a huge problem.