Has anyone else had experience of having autism and living in supported housing in the UK?
I have Asperger's and severe mental health problems and I've been in supported housing for four and a half years.
I can say I hate it and I'm trying to move out.
The social demands placed on me are too high (people - I just want to live on my own). And I cannot cope with the noise of other people. Also nobody in this house nor the carers understand autism.
I am sinking into a depression as a result of the stress, and my OCD, voices and paranoia are getting rapidly worse.
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EDIT: additional - supported housing has taught me some independence and has taken me away from my abusive mother though. And I haven't been hospitalised for 19 months now.
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I am a partially verbal classic autistic. I am a pharmacology student with full time support.
25 May 2013, 3:45 pm
The noise thing is putting me off living in supported housing.
