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Walking away

Kate Kestrel
over 2 years ago

It has just struck me how tough education. Is for many autistic people, and what a huge effort it can be sometimes just to keep going into institutions that make you feel lonely and isolated. My son isn’t going to college at the moment due to mental health problems. We are in talks (if you can call it that) with the college - but they’re not very sympathetic to my sons struggles. Part of him wants to go back, park of him wants to just walk away and leave it all behind. What he’s walking TO though - we simply have no idea. He doesn’t either.

we don’t know what we’re doing. My son has just had enough - and so have I, 

we’ve had the most awful year and we just want to run away from everything at this moment. We’re both severely struggling - we’re totally  exhausted.  
we don’t know what to do. There’s so little help available. 

Parents
  • over 2 years ago

    I can understand those feelings. School was so hard, didn't have any idea what I was doing or how to cope with the stress. There was no help available at all, went to the teachers and they didn't want to know or help. My mum took me out of school in the end because it was too much for me. I'd really like to do college and go on to better things now but I don't see how I'd cope with it all, like you said there's no support for people. I understand feeling lost, I feel lost all the time don't know which way I'm going or where I'm heading.

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  • over 2 years ago

    I can understand those feelings. School was so hard, didn't have any idea what I was doing or how to cope with the stress. There was no help available at all, went to the teachers and they didn't want to know or help. My mum took me out of school in the end because it was too much for me. I'd really like to do college and go on to better things now but I don't see how I'd cope with it all, like you said there's no support for people. I understand feeling lost, I feel lost all the time don't know which way I'm going or where I'm heading.

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  • over 2 years ago in reply to 13

    Hi Renee,

    I’m sorry you’ve experienced difficulties at school too. There really isn’t enough help. We had the feeling at my son’s school that it was ‘sink or swim’ - and if you needed help it was all a big problem and we had to push so hard to get any help for my son, and when we did get help it was very inadequate. After many years of it we just got so tired and we have ended up feeling quite hopeless. Now my son is an adult there’s still very little help. 

    i think your mum did the right thing to take you out of school - I often wonder if I should have done that. However I didn’t have the confidence to think that I could home school my son. 

    I’m sorry that you feel lost - that’s how we feel too. My son is supposed to be going back to college in September - but he’s not sure if he can face it. In an ideal world we would pack up all our belongings and move to a new place  a long way from here and have a totally fresh start - however at the moment we can’t do that for practical reasons. We hope to in the future though - as soon as practically possible. We want to leave the past behind and start a new life.