{"id":13,"date":"2024-03-05T13:18:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2024-04-16T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T14:40:49","slug":"what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/autism\/what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is autism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2024\/03\/ras-loop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"79\" \/>Autism is a lifelong condition which presents with social and behavioural differences that are impacting on someone&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The official diagnostic term is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).<\/p>\n<p>Others prefer to use the term Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC).<\/p>\n<p>Previous labels like Asperger&#8217;s and High Functioning Autism are no longer in use.\u00a0In this website, we use the term autism.<\/p>\n<p>Our clinicians are aware autism can present in different ways for different people and groups.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have developed ways of masking or compensating for everyday difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autism is a lifelong condition which presents with social and behavioural differences that are impacting on someone&#8217;s life. The official&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/279"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}