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Uni Successes! ANYONE OUT THERE!?

KaloJaro

Hiya,

I'm an 18 year old female aspie, and I will probably have to move to live on campus at uni alone....about 6 hours drive away from my mum.

I'm fed up (aka, terrified) about reading all these stories of people with any form of ASD being driven practically insane with stress and having to abandon their studies to go home.

So please, if you've been to uni, or are at uni, and doing ok, doesn't have to be brilliant, just ok or even coping, let me know! I'd really appreciate knowing what to expect!

Not sure whether I should put this in Education or General so I'm going with general, as its not the actual learning I'm worried about, its the living away from mum bit. :)

Thanks!

Katie.

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  • Hi Katie,

    I went to University in Cambridge (though not to Cambridge University), and came out with a Degree in Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems.

    So, it's not always a disaster!

    Though one thing that I think helped me was that I lived in a house owned by a couple who let 2 of their bedrooms to students - so I didn't have to cope with living by myself at the same time as being at Uni.

    As longman suggests it would be a good idea to contact the University beforehand, find out what help they can offer, and try to find a way to work round any potential problems before they happen.

    However, you'll hopefully find, like I did, that you and your fellow course-mates will band together, and support each-other, because almost everyone will be in roughly the same boat (though most probably won't also be Aspie).

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  • Hi Katie,

    I went to University in Cambridge (though not to Cambridge University), and came out with a Degree in Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems.

    So, it's not always a disaster!

    Though one thing that I think helped me was that I lived in a house owned by a couple who let 2 of their bedrooms to students - so I didn't have to cope with living by myself at the same time as being at Uni.

    As longman suggests it would be a good idea to contact the University beforehand, find out what help they can offer, and try to find a way to work round any potential problems before they happen.

    However, you'll hopefully find, like I did, that you and your fellow course-mates will band together, and support each-other, because almost everyone will be in roughly the same boat (though most probably won't also be Aspie).

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