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Transition to University

Marty

Hi, my son has AS, dyslexia & dyspraxia but has survived school & college and has secured a place at Southampton Solent University this September - his first time living away from home.

So far the University has been really supportive and I hope everything will work out ok.  However I'd be really interested to hear from either parents of other young people with Aspergers, or the students themselves, on the dos and don'ts of transition to University.

We'd also be really interested if your son/daughter, or you if you're the student, are either currently at, or are off to, Southampton Solent this year.

Thanks.

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  • Hi Longman. What subject did you lecture on at uni?

    I really enjoyed my History course, although it was quite intense at times. I am pleased to say that I did my whole degree completely on my own, although I received counselling for my mental health issues (this was before my diagnosis of AS).  I did lots of work on Post-modernism and interpretation, Victorian morality, feminism, world wars etc. I got a 2.1 in the end, just 2 marks down from a first, and no-one helped me. Prior to my GCSEs (which I passed with flying colours, apart from Maths), I thought that I was not up to much; an academic non-starter. But I now consider myself to be academically able (even if I have an eccentric style; too much detail!), but, alas, I am hopeless when it comes to practical skills, and because of my mental health problems and AS combined, I still don't have a job. I do not regret going to Uni but I wish that more practical skill training were provided for us aspies. A University education certainly does not prepare aspies for the real world, but this does not mean that it is a pointless exercise, far from it.

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  • Hi Longman. What subject did you lecture on at uni?

    I really enjoyed my History course, although it was quite intense at times. I am pleased to say that I did my whole degree completely on my own, although I received counselling for my mental health issues (this was before my diagnosis of AS).  I did lots of work on Post-modernism and interpretation, Victorian morality, feminism, world wars etc. I got a 2.1 in the end, just 2 marks down from a first, and no-one helped me. Prior to my GCSEs (which I passed with flying colours, apart from Maths), I thought that I was not up to much; an academic non-starter. But I now consider myself to be academically able (even if I have an eccentric style; too much detail!), but, alas, I am hopeless when it comes to practical skills, and because of my mental health problems and AS combined, I still don't have a job. I do not regret going to Uni but I wish that more practical skill training were provided for us aspies. A University education certainly does not prepare aspies for the real world, but this does not mean that it is a pointless exercise, far from it.

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