Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi there,
Just wondering, does anyone else feel as though there is zero support out there? I have searched and searched including on this website and it just seems the only real support is for children, parents/guardians/carers of autistic children or severely autistic adults. I am high functioning autistic with a diagnosis in the past couple of years. It feels as though no one cares. Once I got my diagnosis there was zero follow up at all. Nothing. Is it not the people who have always struggled through life and never known why that need support? Of course children and severely autistic people need support, but it feels as though high functioning adults are completely left behind as if because we are high functioning we can cope on our own. I have been completely and utterly lost since graduating university with no direction and no purpose. I am one of the 88% of adults with autism who are out of work, but there is just no support to help those 88%.
I feel like I am slowly going insane and no one seems to care or want to help.
Am I the only one?
Sophie
Thank you all for your replies. Firstly, I realised after I posted that I should have said 78% not 88%.
But anyway, my biggest struggle at the moment is finding employment. I completed a degree with a 2.1 so I am perfectly capable. I can't seem to decide what I might like to do. I will think of something and then obsess over it for a few weeks and then it will peter out until I've pretty much forgotten about it. I know a few things I definitely don't want; desk/office job, anything customer related (fewer people the better!) I just can't seem to commit to anything and it's infuriating. I'm in Hampshire and their Autism service was less than helpful unfortunately.