Accommodations at university?

Yes, it can prove extremely tough going.  An online course would be easier, but in this case the person has already struggled through most of the course and the extreme anxiety and difficult feelings have intensified for the last year, returning after a long break due to issues relating to undiagnosed autism (now diagnosed).  

Shopping and budgetting is OK, but anything relating to socialising, or other interactions such as group work or being in crowds on campus is extremely difficult.  Warning emails over non attendance are now landing.  All of the issues have become very intense following negative experiences and strong memories from the first years of the course.  I'm not sure what the disability officer might suggest but I have the feeling it's likely to be shot down as useless due to the high anxiety and anger over the predicament.     

Sometimes there is no support at university and people are left to struggle trying to get to the campus etc. and even family ostracise, bully,  ignore, make mean comments, ridicule etc. I don't want to go into the awful details here-they're too bad.  One wonders who actually has a neurodevelopmental disability the way that some people behave towards someone who actually does.

difficulties interacting is the main reason why so many things are difficult. People need support to communicate with others. Another example is when people are experiencing financial difficulties or difficulties with other things like shopping etc. etc. and can’t get support partly to start off with people find it difficult to ask and communicate to people and people usually just bully if you tell them or ignore you or worse

It is extremely difficult sometimes for people who have autism to go to the classes on campus at university.  Things are improved by doing course online. Some people struggled at school but as they were forced to go felt they didn’t have a choice and people felt like they wanted to get out of school because of various difficulties (such as bullying, feeling really tired a lot but nowhere to lie down, frequent class changes and rooms, changing the place where sitting in class, difficulty being in class and trying to learn in the difficult environment), but couldn’t. At university, being more independent, everything is new and difficult and this means people need a lot of support with getting to the campus and attending. People also need help with shopping and various other things including budgeting and socialising.

i've got the online information but struggle to think of ways of supporting someone who is not only reluctant to make contact with this department, but struggling with the thought of the interactions that this might entail.  The need is to know in advance what they could actually do and unfortunately anything we find listed online isn't deemed to be helpful.  To me it has the feel of not being able to access services because of the very nature of the problem (difficulties interacting).  

Not sure - there might be some information here: https://www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowances-dsas

Hi, JennyButterfly. Your university will usually have a department that supports students with disabilities - have you had a look at their website, or your student intranet site?

Anyone know how long the process of getting a Disabled Student Allowance might take?  I can find general info on the NAS website but nothing about what can be implemented here and now in order to keep someone on a course that's just started.