I have bad anxiety and paranoia issues. My father says that I think up a non-existent problem and then spend my time worrying about something before it has even happened! I fear the worst, in other words.
A few years ago, I finally had money to be able to rent a flat and move out of my parents home. Within a matter of days, I started suffering from home sickness. Due to worsening depression, anxiety, home sickness, and a fear of being made homeless, I moved back into my parents home. My parents own their own home and do not have a mortgage (having paid it off in 1996). So I call my parents home, my comfort blanket.
My parents are elderly (almost 70 and 66). However, I was hoping to be able to look after them myself if they need help with day to day living. But they may have to go into a care home one day and my sister and I may be forced to sell their house, which will mean I will have to look for a new home.
Things are being made worse by the current Government changing rules regarding social housing, etc.
I would like to know what experiences other people with Asperger Syndrome have had regarding housing support and housing issues?
Here are a few queries of my own...
- As I have been formally diagnosed with Asperger, and as I suffer from depression, anxiety, paranoia, etc, would I be treated as a disabled and/or vulnerable person and be given priority for social housing?
- Could my local County Council and/or Borough Council force me to sell my parents home to pay for care costs? Or would they consider me as a disabled and/or vulnerable person and therefore unable to force me to sell their home?
- What are the experiences of other Aspergers and Autistic people in relation to finding a place to live, finding suppport, getting social housing, whether or not you have had to sell your parents home to pay for their care, etc?