what is my autistic right

I am 18 now and has autism but some other adult are criticised about my difference because of my age. And I am being force to act like people at my age and it's really hurting me. So i don't know is this right? some people is forcing me to act the way my peers are like. and i also have delay development. 

Parents
  • hi,

    You see I'm an 18 years old teenager. (but an adult sometime as i can legally vote) so i had just finnished my secondary school and moving on to college. my dad think it's better for me not to go to university so instead go to a post secondary school (which is like secondary school except you get to choose what you want to do.) so i was so excited that i don't have to go to university and be a complete adult. you see i also have delay development. I didn't speak until I was 5 years old so when i was 10, my intelligent will be like a 5 years old. so i am about 4 years delay from my peers.

    so part of my autism, i have problem with organisation and sometimes i still need my parent to help and guide me like some other autistic adult who are still 19. 

    but one day at the reception for my further education for filling in forms, a man had gave out to my dad and criticise him for still helping me as an over 18 years old and he said to my dad that why am i still get help from my parent, I'm an adult. he should be doing this all by himself. he should no longer to have parent guide and help him.

    so after my mum began so worried that she and my dad are no longer allow to help me so she said many hard word that really upsetting me for not doing good enough and that day, my family got into argument and then it was ruined because of that reception man, he nearly gave out to my dad.

    but IT'S MY RIGHT

    - come on there, i am autistic

    - my parent already told them i am autistic

    - if autistic adult are incompetent, they should have right to be helped by their parent.

    - like if you go to ready the age and everyday law website http://oxme.info/cms/life/your-rights-different-ages, they even said 

    "At 19, You are no longer classed as a child which means you have to use adult services unless you have learning difficulties or disabilities."

    - so i think i shouldn't be a fully an adult yet. i am autistic, i should be still treated like other teenager for abit.

    you see part of my autism, i get very hurt if someone judge me by my age. I could nearly get angry and get into a meltdown, I could not sleep properly, my heart beat so fast and I couldn't stop banging my head. you see i am very sicken tired of the age differences gap.

    you see in the past when i was young, alot of adult (especially my old mean speech therapist) used to try to reduce me from loving disney characters as a way to avoid being bullied (as you see in ireland, disney characters are consider for younger children. only family love disney with their children. not like in japan or america where disney characters are for all ages especially for autistic adult as well). i've been having lots of trauma of the bullying history as a child. when i was a child, not only my speech therapist did it, some of my uncle, my primary school teacher and some other kids who bullied and criticising me for doing that. but i also feeled abit unfair (reminder please don't say "that's life"), in ireland, lots of younger children carry disney doll in the public but my therapist used to criticise me for doing that because of my grown up age but these younger children get respected like royal noble for loving disney while me, i get criticised from it because of my age. so these trauma are still in my mind.so that's why when ever i hear about age difference gap, i get very angry.

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  • hi,

    You see I'm an 18 years old teenager. (but an adult sometime as i can legally vote) so i had just finnished my secondary school and moving on to college. my dad think it's better for me not to go to university so instead go to a post secondary school (which is like secondary school except you get to choose what you want to do.) so i was so excited that i don't have to go to university and be a complete adult. you see i also have delay development. I didn't speak until I was 5 years old so when i was 10, my intelligent will be like a 5 years old. so i am about 4 years delay from my peers.

    so part of my autism, i have problem with organisation and sometimes i still need my parent to help and guide me like some other autistic adult who are still 19. 

    but one day at the reception for my further education for filling in forms, a man had gave out to my dad and criticise him for still helping me as an over 18 years old and he said to my dad that why am i still get help from my parent, I'm an adult. he should be doing this all by himself. he should no longer to have parent guide and help him.

    so after my mum began so worried that she and my dad are no longer allow to help me so she said many hard word that really upsetting me for not doing good enough and that day, my family got into argument and then it was ruined because of that reception man, he nearly gave out to my dad.

    but IT'S MY RIGHT

    - come on there, i am autistic

    - my parent already told them i am autistic

    - if autistic adult are incompetent, they should have right to be helped by their parent.

    - like if you go to ready the age and everyday law website http://oxme.info/cms/life/your-rights-different-ages, they even said 

    "At 19, You are no longer classed as a child which means you have to use adult services unless you have learning difficulties or disabilities."

    - so i think i shouldn't be a fully an adult yet. i am autistic, i should be still treated like other teenager for abit.

    you see part of my autism, i get very hurt if someone judge me by my age. I could nearly get angry and get into a meltdown, I could not sleep properly, my heart beat so fast and I couldn't stop banging my head. you see i am very sicken tired of the age differences gap.

    you see in the past when i was young, alot of adult (especially my old mean speech therapist) used to try to reduce me from loving disney characters as a way to avoid being bullied (as you see in ireland, disney characters are consider for younger children. only family love disney with their children. not like in japan or america where disney characters are for all ages especially for autistic adult as well). i've been having lots of trauma of the bullying history as a child. when i was a child, not only my speech therapist did it, some of my uncle, my primary school teacher and some other kids who bullied and criticising me for doing that. but i also feeled abit unfair (reminder please don't say "that's life"), in ireland, lots of younger children carry disney doll in the public but my therapist used to criticise me for doing that because of my grown up age but these younger children get respected like royal noble for loving disney while me, i get criticised from it because of my age. so these trauma are still in my mind.so that's why when ever i hear about age difference gap, i get very angry.

Children
  • hi guys, just want to know how your parent discipline you even though you have autism? can you share some for me please?

    include do they respect your strange behaviour, your special interest (eventhough is something your peers don't like or very limited), the way how you socialise, do something that you want/like?