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Pieplup
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22 Apr 2016, 1:36 pm

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Hello,

This is interesting thread. Like a few others have commented you should start working on this now while you have time. Perhaps trying to start a transition to more independence.

I'm going through the same transition myself. I am trying to live independently but I am finding it very hard so I am accessing support from social services to help me. Being dependent on people is very worrying, dependent on the state isn't great but it is stable (at least in the UK).

Hopefully I will need less help in the future, that's my goal anyway.

Regarding living in a car, I knew another aspie who lived that way. He liked it. I have an NT friend who lives in a van hidden in an old car park so its not only autistic folk who like to live that way.

There is something called the tiny homes movement, it's basically a more comfortable version of the same lifestyle.

Personally I can see the appeal but I don't have have the skills to do that. Perhaps in the future when I have stronger skills with making meals and stuff I will try living in a van myself. I tried having a home and I didn't like it much (but that was probably more to do with the lack of support than the house itself).

Jamie + Liom

I have a friend named Piplup much like Loin. I carry him around everywhere I go just like you. :) I have had him a few years. I've been looking on twitter recently and have found quite a lot of twitter profiles like this.


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22 Apr 2016, 4:34 pm

I can't live in a "tiny homes" type of place. I would feel absolutely hemmed in and suffocated.

I live in a 650 square foot apartment. I don't find that to bad. But 100-200 square feet? Forget about it!



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22 Apr 2016, 4:46 pm

I try not to think about it, not something I want to obsess about given my limited ability to change things. Maybe I should, I dunno, hard not to feel hopeless and it saves a lot of stress and pain. :(



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23 Apr 2016, 4:34 am

lonely autistic wrote:
Im on the autistic spectrum, im 35 yrs old, i've never worked 1 month on a job but i went terribly as i couldn't do the job correctly, I worry as all i have is my mom, i have a sister but we are not on good terms at all. I worry if somehing happens to my mom what would i do ALONE!! ! Im so scared as all the money i have is from my disability check, i have moor skill prolems, ive never een alone!! ! ! Any of you guys and girls in a situation similar to mine,



I have three kids. One was from a female butch pretending to be straight she grew her hair and pretended to be interested since I look rich and professional she thought she hit the jackpot she didn't but she gets free everything that I have to pay.

I also had a Caribbean girl who wanted to marry me for a green card which I didn't know now she has me by the balls.

So I gross 423.50 weekly monthly 1,694 and I net 650.00 monthly.

440 monthly child support
Healthcare 96.50 weekly monthly 386 and that's if it's only four weeks.

Trust me guy your not missing much except getting used and worked to death. Because my parents forced me to work and never wanted me to get evaluated because they couldn't believe nothing could be wrong with me I missed out on SSI.

I qualify for food stamps in my state but I only get 16.00 dollars a month. And if I dared not to work I go to jail.

I eat two cans of Spaghetti and meatballs a day. I've been in the hospital because I pass out due to low blood pressure caused by not eating enough and stress.

My current wife is in Florida away from me and I am under the watchful eyes of her parents till they decide to can leave and she can divorce me without jeopardizing her green card.

At that point I am homeless.

Your not missing out on anything



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23 Apr 2016, 2:05 pm

I worry about being alone. I think that was a reason why I married so early - I fell in love at 19 and sticked with this person. All my friends were living their bachelor life, and I was already enjoying the "happily every after". But I do not know HOW I would ever live alone if anything would happen to her or my father (who's the only family I have). It is actually shamelessly one of my [selfish] motivations to have children (or a child). I so want to feel loved and that people care about me - I tend to scare most of the people away.



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24 Apr 2016, 1:36 am

I'm very dependent because of physical disabilities in addition to my Aspergers. I have worked before but I'm currently on Social Security Disability. I lived with my parents till I moved in with my girlfriend 3 & a half years ago. I can take care of myself for alittle while but I get lonely cuz of other mental issues & I really don't think I could handle living alone.


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24 Apr 2016, 4:27 am

I worry about dying alone if I live to be an old lady. By then I don't think I will have any family or friends, because most of my friends are much older than me and so is my partner, and obviously my mum and dad and aunts and uncles are too. I probably won't be close to any of my cousins by then, so I will probably end up spending my last years on Earth alone, then dying alone, and being found 5 years later as a mummified corpse sitting on the settee with the TV still on. Then nobody turns up to my funeral.

Yes I know I won't know anything about it but it's still a very depressing thought to assume that is how I will end. That's what happens when you are unpopular. :cry:


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24 Apr 2016, 8:31 am

To the guy with the green-card holder: a divorce wouldn't take away her green card. I don't even think that her citizenship chances are affected should you two divorce if you have stayed married five years.

I'm not saying the OP should, necessarily, get a job. I'm saying he has to work on being independent even while getting benefits. The government won't take care of the basic needs of somebody with average intelligence.



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24 Apr 2016, 9:11 am

Pieplup wrote:
SpacedOutAndSmiling wrote:
Hello,

This is interesting thread. Like a few others have commented you should start working on this now while you have time. Perhaps trying to start a transition to more independence.

I'm going through the same transition myself. I am trying to live independently but I am finding it very hard so I am accessing support from social services to help me. Being dependent on people is very worrying, dependent on the state isn't great but it is stable (at least in the UK).

Hopefully I will need less help in the future, that's my goal anyway.

Regarding living in a car, I knew another aspie who lived that way. He liked it. I have an NT friend who lives in a van hidden in an old car park so its not only autistic folk who like to live that way.

There is something called the tiny homes movement, it's basically a more comfortable version of the same lifestyle.

Personally I can see the appeal but I don't have have the skills to do that. Perhaps in the future when I have stronger skills with making meals and stuff I will try living in a van myself. I tried having a home and I didn't like it much (but that was probably more to do with the lack of support than the house itself).

Jamie + Liom

I have a friend named Piplup much like Loin. I carry him around everywhere I go just like you. :) I have had him a few years. I've been looking on twitter recently and have found quite a lot of twitter profiles like this.


Plushies are just awesome, lion is always with me and I've never had anything other than a positive reaction to him.

He's also the perfect conversions starter.. Walk up to any grown and says "it's okay he's been fed" :)

J&L


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24 Apr 2016, 10:48 am

My parents are all I have. Like the others said, I have also enjoyed the essential lifestyle. Parents help is nice, but if you end up alone on ssi, its not that hard to pay rent. If you are alone try not to go to jail or you will lose everything. MHMR is very helpful if you sign up with them. Their job is pretty much getting you free meds and getting you out of binds.



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24 Apr 2016, 11:05 am

I worry about being alone almost all the time. I'm 24 and I've never had a girlfriend while half of my siblings have been in at least one relationship and many of my friends (some of them younger than me) have already gotten married. I fear that I'll never find the perfect one for me or even worse that I'll find that special someone only to lose them to illness or natural causes. I believe that there's something very primal about desiring to hold on to human connections.



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24 Apr 2016, 4:45 pm

<--- Lives in a six square foot apartment (or whatever the square feet is of the interior of a Kia Optima).



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25 Apr 2016, 8:12 am

If you put all the seats down, you might have closer to 20 square feet of space.



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25 Apr 2016, 8:19 am

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<--- Lives in a six square foot apartment (or whatever the square feet is of the interior of a Kia Optima).


That sounds do you fascinating, how do you find it? Would you prefer to live in an apartment?


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25 Apr 2016, 8:22 am

Red Robin is forced to live in a car because of circumstances beyond his control.

He's a very bright and witty guy.

I don't recommend it for most people. It's a very difficult way of life.

I've thought about it myself--but I couldn't do that in New York City.



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25 Apr 2016, 8:38 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
Red Robin is forced to live in a car because of circumstances beyond his control.

He's a very bright and witty guy.

I don't recommend it for most people. It's a very difficult way of life.

I've thought about it myself--but I couldn't do that in New York City.


I've considered if myself for various reasons but as a chosen experiment and with backup of friends nearby, for it to be forced is quite scary. A good friend of mine was living from his car for a while.

Best of luck in the future.


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