According to the charity Ambitious About Autism, 1 in 100 children in the UK have Autism but a poll conducted on almost 4,000 parents of children with Autism by the charity reveals that almost half of parents have had to wait 18 months or longer to get a diagnosis which in the meantime wastes valuable […]
For anyone with high-functioning Autism, I believe independence is something we can all achieve. This includes our own job that makes us a living, our own relationships and friends and also includes eventually getting our very own place and perhaps one day our own family. But it is a long road. For me it really […]
As someone with Autism I am absolutely appalled that in this state and age we find those with Autism and other learning-difficulties being locked away in mental-health holding cells against their and even in a number of cases, their families will. The conditions they are being kept in, small rooms, the absolute minimum human contact, […]
Having Autism for me means that progressing in life is more difficult and slower due to reasons such as not understanding things and also having trouble with the social demands of moving into life. It can be a real struggle and that cannot be evidenced enough at the fact that at the age of 21 […]
Even thinking about it makes me instantly relaxed and my stress and worries melt away. A big problem in my life is just being completely and entirely over-whelmed by the abundance of choices and options we have access to now-a-days – some people call that virtuous or a good thing, but for someone like me […]
Featured Photo by Tim Gouw from Pexels As I have said in some of my previous blogposts on Autism, life for a person on the Autism Spectrum can be difficult, especially in later life, people with high-functioning Autism may realize they are lacking behind others and unfortunately this can lead to depression and a sense of worthlessness, […]
Featured photo: by Pixabay.com from Pexels It mostly comes down to communication and social cues. People with Autism simply don’t understand most of the time how to start and keep a proper conversation going and also fail to identify common social cues which can put general people off of them or cause them to avoid […]
So I thought I would start a blog and get doing something with my life because I am just sitting here in my room most of the time searching up activities to do on the internet but then just being mostly bored a lot of the time. I have Autism so in reality it is just hard to do much because with Autism you just have no social life most the time and I thought it is probably about time that I should get into something somewhat social, so here I am trying this out.