Advice for university and pre-university?

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Hi, I'm just about to finish up my grade 12 year, (it will be official in a few days when I receive my exam grades, but I am already basically off school for the summer), and am preparing for university in the fall. To give a few details about my specific situation, I have ASD, a visual-spacial learning disability, and a generalized anxiety disorder. I will be living on my own for the first time in residence, and am doing a humanities program for my major. I will have a few roommates. My primary difficulties are with socialization and with time management. Does anybody have any advice to share about things I should be doing in advance during the summer to get ready, and for how to avoid flaming out once I am officially on campus. For those of you who also have social difficulties and are past your first year of university, how did you make friends? How did you avoid troubles with your roommates? Is there anything that you were able to learn later through experience that you wish you'd known going into university? If anybody else has time management issues, (I know that might be a little bit less common on here,) what are some strategies you used to compensate for this? If you used any sort of accessibility services, or coaching or anything like that, what was the most helpful? Thanks you all so much in advance, any thoughts you have would be really appreciated!