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housing form help please

raknor

i need to fill out a housing form and im fine with most of it but the medical part has me stumped...

"How would a move to another home help with any illness or disability?
You must answer this question if you want to be considered for medical points"

and i really dont know what to put. the medical tick box questions are all physical problems and nothing for mental health at all.

I'm 31 years old and currently living with my "wife" but we are seperating (mainly because of my ASD) so obviously i need to find somewhere else to live and fast but i dont know what reasons i can put on this form apart from needing to stay near my carer and suport network

after i was diangosed as an adult i had adult services come round and ask me a bunch of questions , i said i would require help getting relocated and i was told a bunch of rubbish that hasnt happened like they liason with the local housing asociations etc and i would get all the help i need...

all i got was a phone number for the housing department posted to me in the mail.....

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  • Might be worth contacting your local councillor (probably listed on your local authority website, though you might have to search a bit). Also check the NAS website to see if there are NAS people or a group in your locality.

    Judging from the national response to the self assessment form marking progress with "Leading Rewarding and Fulfilling Lives" social services familiarity with autistic spectrum is fairly patchy. You may find therefore that they simply don't understand autism as a disability, beyond people in care.

    Your local authority for social services may be county or town or some other structure, but try the different websites and see which one has divisions for mental health and learning disability. If they don't have separate provision for autism, or only have provision for children and teenagers, you may be hard pressed to find anyone with any useful understanding.

    Hence your councillor or local NAS, or an autism local parents' group if they have any provision for adults, may be valuable as an advocacy service or supporter to get you the right support. Failing that Citizens Advice Bureau, as another respondent has said, are well-placed to deal with this.

    You shouldn't be left doing this on your own.

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  • Might be worth contacting your local councillor (probably listed on your local authority website, though you might have to search a bit). Also check the NAS website to see if there are NAS people or a group in your locality.

    Judging from the national response to the self assessment form marking progress with "Leading Rewarding and Fulfilling Lives" social services familiarity with autistic spectrum is fairly patchy. You may find therefore that they simply don't understand autism as a disability, beyond people in care.

    Your local authority for social services may be county or town or some other structure, but try the different websites and see which one has divisions for mental health and learning disability. If they don't have separate provision for autism, or only have provision for children and teenagers, you may be hard pressed to find anyone with any useful understanding.

    Hence your councillor or local NAS, or an autism local parents' group if they have any provision for adults, may be valuable as an advocacy service or supporter to get you the right support. Failing that Citizens Advice Bureau, as another respondent has said, are well-placed to deal with this.

    You shouldn't be left doing this on your own.

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