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Should I go home to visit my family?

NAS62563

Hi, I am diagnosed with ASD and live alone in England, I do not have contact with any people here and have been alone for 8 weeks now due to the lockdown

My family lives in Scotland and I would like to drive there to visit them and stay for 2 or 3 days before I go back to work (I work from home from 1st June). It would also be ideal at the end of this month as it is my mum and grandmothers birthdays. Of course I would maintain social distancing if I did get to see my grandparents (my family have been visiting them in the garden anyway)

The laws keep changing and although Scotland is due to relax restrictions on the 28th of May, I don't think you are supposed to stay at another household. I see people breaking these rules all the time though (such as my flatmate having his girlfriend over every couple of days). My main worry would be my parents neighbours seeing my car there

With regards to ASD some laws have been relaxed but it is not very clear, does breaking the rules for "health reasons" apply to me if I have ASD and have not been able to see my family for 8 weeks and am struggling with this?

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  • the way i see it is, how would you cope if you were a carrier but not aware and your parents got really sick? thats my main question before rule breaking. But then ive had the virus quite  bad and still have lung problems from it. I was a healthy and active adult with no health issues.(I'd only been out of the house 3 times since january, it takes just 1 person)

    Anyway,If I were you I would think about that question. Talk it over with your parents even, see what they think

  • in reply to mouse2

    The chance of me being a carrier is very little as I have no interaction with anyone. My parents think that the world shouldnt be put on hold with millions of careers and businesses being ruined, mental health rising just because of a tiny, tiny, tiny risk that some people will die. That is not a life worth living and if we are due to die then we are due to die and it cant be prolonged forever regardless unless the whole economy collapses by keeping everyone in lockdown for years. Statistically there has been 0.01% more deaths than normal in the UK

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  • in reply to mouse2

    The chance of me being a carrier is very little as I have no interaction with anyone. My parents think that the world shouldnt be put on hold with millions of careers and businesses being ruined, mental health rising just because of a tiny, tiny, tiny risk that some people will die. That is not a life worth living and if we are due to die then we are due to die and it cant be prolonged forever regardless unless the whole economy collapses by keeping everyone in lockdown for years. Statistically there has been 0.01% more deaths than normal in the UK

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