Published on 12, July, 2020
I am fifty-six so I am now involved with the Autism and Ageing Campaign the National Autistic Society is doing.
I mentioned this campaign on the World Autism Support Network and got a reply from someone involved.
The right place is to discuss it in this Community.
There is not a space for campaigns so I was not sure where to mention this campaign.
It is important for people to realise that children do not grow out of their Autism.
If we live to a hundred we will still be Autistic.
That is why it is important for Doctors and Nurses and other people who work in the National Health Service are aware of Autism.
David
How do you cope with ageing?
I see ageing as a horrible thing that slowly eats us!
Not very well really, and it isn't even the kind of ageing (ye) that makes us frail and prone to physical health issues. It's rather the fact that I don't seem to grow up like other people do. We had work experience students (they are 15, isn't it?) and I couldn't believe how mature they were in social situations, and in a good way. Think studying and not having kids makes us grow up more slowly, but somehow everybody around me has managed it by now, so I fit in less and less, which doesn't help with loneliness, another common problem with ageing.