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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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  • I went to University and I chose one nearer to home so I could come home at weekends and it worked well for me. At that point I hadn't had my formal diagnosis but we knew there was something.

     

    So during the week I lived at Uni and then came home on friday evenings and went back monday mornings so I got the support I needed. It worked well and developed a new independence in me which I still have.

     

    The difficulty for me was getting work afterwards and I have been unable to get a job in the field I'd like to work in and although I do work (in a rubbish job) it's hard getting on somewhere else in part because of my ASD diagnosis.

     

    Go for it, and get the support you need from the Uni too if you already have your diagnosis.

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  • I went to University and I chose one nearer to home so I could come home at weekends and it worked well for me. At that point I hadn't had my formal diagnosis but we knew there was something.

     

    So during the week I lived at Uni and then came home on friday evenings and went back monday mornings so I got the support I needed. It worked well and developed a new independence in me which I still have.

     

    The difficulty for me was getting work afterwards and I have been unable to get a job in the field I'd like to work in and although I do work (in a rubbish job) it's hard getting on somewhere else in part because of my ASD diagnosis.

     

    Go for it, and get the support you need from the Uni too if you already have your diagnosis.

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