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My 29yo son has not left the house in over 5 years...

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I am 64 and was diagnosed with aspergers in 2016.

I guess Im high functioning having been succesful in IT and wronte a few tech books.

My son (29) i beleive is aspergers/autistic and has not left the house in 5 years or more.

He does some online graphics work to earn enough to feed himself but thats about it.

I and he have never before applied for asked for any finanacial help preferring to battle on, which has worked, but now my wifes recruitment business is failing and creating almost no income (35k loss last year) so I though I would ask people here.

I dont feel comformtable asking my son if he wants to be diagnosed so we just drudge on.

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  • May be you could send your son the AQ-10 or AQ-50 test which is a preliminary test  which he could do online.

    You can note conditions that you have suffered from over 6 months on a PIP form even if you are not diagnosed with them. They must though need to affect you to a degree enough to be able to claim benefit.

    Btw, you need to claim PIP before retirement age to be able to claim it after this age.

    It may be worth your son trying to claim Universal Credit if he is below the minimum income that will allow for this and has savings under the amount needed.

    You have written that your son hasn’t left the house in 5 years, I don’t know if you mean this literally. Does he go to the front gate etc or the local shops etc?

    Depending which area you live in there are some groups for neurodivergent people like the London Autism Group.

    Try to get them to follow leads in the community where their hobbies are.  There are graphics and computer museums out there for example.

    There may be some other reasons why your son hasn’t left the house as well and perhaps speaking to a GP about this may be in order as a first place to go. There are other conditions out there like agoraphobia and anxiety.

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  • May be you could send your son the AQ-10 or AQ-50 test which is a preliminary test  which he could do online.

    You can note conditions that you have suffered from over 6 months on a PIP form even if you are not diagnosed with them. They must though need to affect you to a degree enough to be able to claim benefit.

    Btw, you need to claim PIP before retirement age to be able to claim it after this age.

    It may be worth your son trying to claim Universal Credit if he is below the minimum income that will allow for this and has savings under the amount needed.

    You have written that your son hasn’t left the house in 5 years, I don’t know if you mean this literally. Does he go to the front gate etc or the local shops etc?

    Depending which area you live in there are some groups for neurodivergent people like the London Autism Group.

    Try to get them to follow leads in the community where their hobbies are.  There are graphics and computer museums out there for example.

    There may be some other reasons why your son hasn’t left the house as well and perhaps speaking to a GP about this may be in order as a first place to go. There are other conditions out there like agoraphobia and anxiety.

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