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Hi, as a autistic parent of 2 daughters with (to me) obvious autistic traits but no formal diagnosis I can offer a retrospective analysis.

My daughters are very different - the more outgoing and "resilient" one had a considerably healthier, happier and productive time there. _ So I think that knowing in advance what your own daughter is like can be a starting point of analysis.

The one who found it the hardest had very much doubted that she would be accepted at any uni - let alone the quite prestigious one she went to - so her own personal preparation for the changes was limited - and change is one of the sticky points for a lot of autistic people.  Retrospectively a closer uni where they could have returned home more easily would have been helpful however my keen to see the world (perhaps even "headstrong" - more likely very "tunnelled attention and interests" daughter was not interested in that) - and hindsight is what it is...

I would say that you're doing the right thing now in respect of considering the preparation for the transition and although your daughter might find it hard to do so themselves the best advice I can share is that they themselves do so too - how that is enabled and encouraged might be a good place to start?  Maybe point them towards the NAS website link Nicola Mod shared and that could be a shared discussion?

Hi, as a autistic parent of 2 daughters with (to me) obvious autistic traits but no formal diagnosis I can offer a retrospective analysis.

My daughters are very different - the more outgoing and "resilient" one had a considerably healthier, happier and productive time there. _ So I think that knowing in advance what your own daughter is like can be a starting point of analysis.

The one who found it the hardest had very much doubted that she would be accepted at any uni - let alone the quite prestigious one she went to - so her own personal preparation for the changes was limited - and change is one of the sticky points for a lot of autistic people.  Retrospectively a closer uni where they could have returned home more easily would have been helpful however my keen to see the world (perhaps even "headstrong" - more likely very "tunnelled attention and interests" daughter was not interested in that) - and hindsight is what it is...

I would say that you're doing the right thing now in respect of considering the preparation for the transition and although your daughter might find it hard to do so themselves the best advice I can share is that they themselves do so too - how that is enabled and encouraged might be a good place to start?  Maybe point them towards the NAS website link Nicola Mod shared and that could be a shared discussion?