I am autistic and experiencing a very difficult time now.
Transitions and uncertainty are very difficult for me. I have been living independently for four years now for the first time in my life without being a lodger or a flatmate to someone else.
It’s been quite difficult financially and with the uncertainty of renting from a private landlord so I have applied for an intermediate market rent flat as part of a new scheme.
I am on the list for when the flats are ready but am having to move out of where I am, put my things in storage and stay with a friend for now.
My biggest problem now is anxiety and catastrophising. That things will go wrong, that I won’t get my deposit back, that I will get a bad reference and then not get the new flat, that there will be delays and my friend will get annoyed with me being there, every possible problem is going through my head and is literally keeping me awake and giving me stomach problems.
It’s also impacting my routines and making executive functioning more difficult than usual.
Does anyone have advice about how to deal with this and going through this uncertainty
