u/gareththegreat1

Hi, I was diagnosed in June of this year. I am 25. This has been long awaited for me as I have struggled significantly since childhood. When I had the assessment, the lady who diagnosed me told me that in the UK there is no “high functioning” or “low functioning” and that autism is just autism. Since then I have found that people will say “I was diagnosed with Level 1” or “I am a level 2 autistic person”. What does this mean and does anyone know why I was not given a level?

Hi! I’m from England. Recently we have moved into a house and we have found carpet beetles. For the past 3 weeks we have treated the only room we have found any in with both carpet beetle spray, ant killer and ant powder as suggested by a pest control service. The only thing in this room is a bed that my Nan gave us upon moving here… nothing seems to have worked, and me and my partner are wondering if it is possible that these beetles are coming from the bed itself?

For context, my nan lives in an old Victorian house which is damp and mouldy and has had the same carpets for decades now. (She’s moving into a flat soon which is nice and new, don’t worry!) When we moved in, we didn’t put the bed together, a friend did for us so we were unable to actually look at it. The bed itself has been wiped down a few times as it is a little dirty and old - it is made of wood. We haven’t found any larvae, just adult beetles and the first few beetles we found were on the bed itself.

Is it possible these beetles have been living in the bed? Our landlord (who is genuinely very sweet) was incredibly shocked and upset to hear we’re having this problem, and told us that she, nor the previous tenant or the lady who came to deep clean the house have ever seen these beetles before. The house was completely empty when we moved in. Of course she’s offered to bring pest control in, but we have pet rats and are nervous about having to ‘flea bomb’ the house while they’re in here, even though they live downstairs and the affected room is upstairs.

Basically - I want to know if this is a possibility. If it is (we’re going to inspect the bed frame anyway) we’ll just throw the whole bed away.