friend wants to know what to do....

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I have a friend who I just recently found out has ASD. This is not her only disability, but she has high intelligence.

She does not live with her parents, but her parents are interfering in her decision to explore the possibility of care workers. She wants to pursue this on her own, not with her parents' assistance (which is more like negative help; they're not the greatest of parents and they were quite abusive). She told the agency she does not want her parents involved but they did not listen. Her mother convinced the agency NOT to contact my friend about an appointment despite my friend's clear insistence that she be contacted and be involved in everything. She feels like she's being treated like a second-class citizen.

Now my friend feels as if she can't trust the agency, and doesn't know what her legal rights are (in Canada) regarding whether she could terminate any care from this agency if she so desired. She wants to know how she can take control of her life back.

The best thing your friend could do would be to look into the organization that runs the agency by doing some research and then contacting someone at a higher lever. She could also look into a second agency where her parents have not been contacted and tell them she would like to arrange something else on her own.

As for you, have you thought about talking to her parents yourself? Tell them that she is feeling really uncomfortable. If they don't want to listen, then she will have to go higher than them.

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