Published on 12, July, 2020
Just find the future looks so bleak at times I'm lucky as still live my parents I'm not high functioning and I'm just ASD. Struggle with understanding things like bills and budgeting I guess along with getting work. My disability isn't visible or one you can here so it's hard to exsplain it to regular people and get any understanding from them. Is there support you can get for when your parents eventually pass. There not going anywhere anytime soon luckily as there only in there 60's but I almost feel like I wouldn't know how to survive or cope without them. Suffer baddly from anxiety don't go out because of it that and I don't have ideal social skills so usually end up offending people not on purpose but because I can come across as as a bit blunt and opinated but the future genuinely terrifies me.
I do. Very much so. Over here there is nothing like government support for us. At all. My parents are 74 now and I do worry that some time, hopefuly not soon, they will not be around. We do have some patrimony but...
They tried to shelter me, probably way too much and even though I'm almost finishing a degree I feel like I'm losing the battle because I'm overwhelmed like never before. Also, it seems that no matter what I do, I can't organize my things, my life or even tasks. Is this "adulting"? Do I also need to be taugh how to function? Sometimes it seems I'm going back on some of them. (Seizures don't help with that)
(I live Alone, but we're very close)
Medical phobias not yet solved but other than that, there has always been a work around for me. Stuff can get tough but there's always another method which works with not against my autism and dyslexia. I've done a lot of stuff in life differently from others and it's more tiring, but I've done it! I've taught dyslexic and autistic kids too. Just taught them using the capabilities they did have rather than ones they didn't. Same way I taught myself.
There's no one size fits all answer. If you can't do it like others do it, try to think of a different way to do it. I find it helps to see what my barrier is to doing something. Then think of a way which avoids or reduces that barrier. Some things work, others don't. But often you can get there with a bit of 'out of the box' thinking.
That's good I think more of us on the spectrum should be the ones to teach it rather than nuros as we understand it better than those that don't. Mind you we probably wouldn't make the best therapists as we still need nurological who can empathise where we strugel can't speak for all of us I guess as it depends on what of the spectrum your on but yeah I respect that.