Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Thousands with autism and learning disabilities stuck in mental health hospitals" video.

"He's an autistic man with learning disabilities" Also "No diagnosed mental health problem" 😂 Which one is it? It can't be both. I can completely see how this might happen in a general ward or a mental health ward. It isn't that the staff don't understand, it's that this isn't their job. To give a non-healthcare analogy people might understand, it's like putting him on a plane and wondering why the flight attendants can't spend all of their time caring for him. The story shouldn't be about which public funded body should have to pay to look after Nicholas. The question should be, why can't and why aren't his family looking after him and taking on that financial burden? The brother says he never imagined having to look after his brother, why not? He's not the responsibility of strangers, he's the responsibility of his family. He's going through all of these things because his family aren't fulfilling their obligations.
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@NicholasThorntonOfficial No one said anything about mental illness. The quote was mental health, which is a different term that indeed does include neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. What the reporter said was a false statement. As someone who has spent 18 years in medicine and a great deal of time on hoslital wards of all kinds, my analogy was apt. The job of general ward nursing staff is not to wait on patients hand and foot, it's not to care for them in a manner fitting to someone in your position. Their job is not to provide 1:1 care. There job is also not to deal with anger outbursts, abuse or beratement. It is not their job to restrain nor entertain. They are busy doing pharmacy rounds, performing rotational obs, completing physician assigned tasks, completing paperwork, cleaning and assorted other functions. They have to do this for between 10 to 20 patients at a time depending on the specific hospital. That gives them no time for one on one care of someone with a neurodevelopmental disorder, which they are not trained in anyway. I'm not sure what you imagine your families financial position has to do with this. There are children, sleeping rough right now, no roof over their heads, no food in their stomach, because their parents lack the financial resources to provide such things in this economy. There are children living in mould ridden council flats right now, for whose family every day is a struggle to survive, to put food on the table. Yet in both of these examples their families take care of them as is best their means. You would be eligible for a disability stipend, so in reality your family caring for you as they should would improve their financial position not degrade it. Regardless, you are their responsibility, their burden to bear, not societies.
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@shizw1919 Your initial sentence is a non-sequitur. Your second sentence is an unintelligible emotional outburst bearing no resemblance to reality. Isn't it interesting that to try to defend an indefensible position you punch down on those whom came before you and built the world you benefit from now. Perhaps not as interesting as that you do so from behind a pseudonym, to cowardly to be accountable to your words. The fact of the matter is, whilst I am a proponent of families looking after their own relatives as much as possible, it isn't always, usually for medical reasons. These are people whom have contributed to society their whole lives by way of productivity, by making the next generation, by participating in the social and political fabric of society. They have earned through their deeds, our respect and the right for society to give them something back even if just a fraction of what they have given to society. Aging is not preventable, yet. Autism however is. I sympathise with families caring for and funding their adult autistic children. I absolutely do. But the point is that millions of families do every single day because they understand their family is their responsibility, not societies and they wouldn't want anyone else to care for their child.
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@xTwilightWolvesx There is no suggestion of physical abuse from staff. You are treating this as if we're talking about a sweet little old lady who only sometimes politely asks for a cup of tea and she's been abandoned. But that's not the situation here. Nicholas has autism. That means Nicholas has the emotional understanding of a small child but in an adult body. It means he will have emotional outbursts that include verbal and potentially physical abuse directed towards staff. It means he will be as uncooperative as a small child at times. It means he will have constant childlike demands, and tantrums will follow if he doesn't get what he wants, things aren't just so, change happens, etc. It's a hospital ward, change is always happening and they can't stop functioning because of Nicholas. Hospitals have policies about abusive patients to protect their staff. But Nicholas has been stuck there so he can't be moved right now. Thus, staff close the door and leave him to it. If I parked my car in the hospital parking lot and asked a ward nurse to wash it, then went on CH4 and made a big song and dance about how they didn't, you might not have much sympathy for me. It after all isn't their job. But that's what Nicholas' family have done with him, because washing cars in the car park is as much their job as it is to care for someone with autism. His family should either take him home or pay somewhere who specialise in caring for people with autism to do so. Nicholas has made clear they can't afford the latter so they should do the former. That's better for everyone.
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@xTwilightWolvesx You have an over-active imagination, no sense and no understanding of the subject you are discussing. I've been in medicine for 18 years, everything I said is accurate.
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@xTwilightWolvesx ...I've been in medicine for 18 years. 🤣
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@xTwilightWolvesx 🤦‍♂️ This is why Nicholas is left in a room alone on the ward.
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@xTwilightWolvesx No. Because you are demonstrating what I said. You keep making claims about my "area of expertise" but you don't actually know. Have a good life mate, hopefully your family care enough about you to look after you unlike Nicholas.
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@xTwilightWolvesx Zero insults. You proved nothing wrong, what I said is objectively correct. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder relating primarily to the stunting of emotional and social neurological development, in addition to related faculties and some other function. It freezes suffers as children unable to develop. That is the reality. Go have your meltdown somewhere else.
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@xTwilightWolvesx No champ, it isn't an insult. You are once more overreacting.
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