No Support

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

Parents
  • The big support is talking here.

    By writing about your problems on an open website you get some of the pent up stress off your chest and there is always a possibility that someone can offer useful advice.

    I also have great difficulty keeping jobs, although I have more qualifications than I know what to do with.

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  • The big support is talking here.

    By writing about your problems on an open website you get some of the pent up stress off your chest and there is always a possibility that someone can offer useful advice.

    I also have great difficulty keeping jobs, although I have more qualifications than I know what to do with.

Children