Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
School was okay for me, but I suffered burnout at the end of University. Now, I feel let down because I made an effort; then got nowhere.
What are you doing now Desmond? Did your University qualification help you to find a good job?
1. Now paddling my own canoe.
2. No. I never got the job I wanted. On reflection, however, that was a blessing in disguise.