Poll: the ideal aspie living situation

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Not every Aspie will have the same answer. Ideally, I'd like to live alone or with another person who understands me (I went ahead and chose the latter for the poll). Realistically, the formwr is more likely to happen.

I've always dreamed of sharing a house with my aspie friends. We'd all have our own appartments, but there would also be communal rooms, like kitchen and living room.

I live alone with two cats in a very quiet neighborhood. It's a rural area, and yet I can easily reach several supermarkets, doctors, a vet and a hospital per bicycle. It's as ideal as it gets. The lack of social contact is a huge problem for me, but living with another person would be even more of a problem.

The Fortress of Solitude, built over The Batcave!

We could, like, invent stuff!
and build it!

It would Be Awesome!! !! !

I have lived with my family, with a roommate and alone (for 2 weeks while roommates were changing). I felt VERY irritated living with my family cuz they would always barge into my room and someone was always around. I didn't like living alone at all. Even though it was only for 2 weeks I could feel myself going slowly crazy and I got scared when I got sick and no one else was there.

My apartment is two floors. I live on the bottom and my roommate lives upstairs and we share the common areas. She is NT, I suppose, but introverted and only wants to have deep conversations and none of that stupid small talk crap. I like this kind of living arrangement very much. If I need someone she is there, but I can go days without talking to her at all.

I picked alone, with pets.
Ideally I wish it could include being understood, not patronized, & in a quiet place.

I'd take a desert island with food and water supplies and my cats.

I'm not in a relationship now and not seeking one currently - I'm taking time to heal from an abusive relationship. But I think if I ever find "the one" my idea living situation would be to live in a duplex next to him. Although I would want to spend a lot of time together, I would also have "my own space." This may be extreme, but in a fantasy world, it would work.

I chose 'living with a spouse/partner who understands you.'

I very much enjoy my alone time, but I can't go to sleep at night in an empty house. I get severe panic attacks, and if I do fall asleep, I end up having terrifying lucid dreams of someone breaking into my home and/or room to harm me. I'm also afraid of the dark, but only when alone. I used to never go into our basement at night (not a scary basement, it's a 'finished' one with a living room area), but my stepbrother now lives here in a spare room in the basement, so even if he's asleep in his room with the door closed, I feel safe in the basement.

I've never lived alone before, but I know I couldn't, for the above reasons. Also, I'd get lonely.

I like the idea of living alone, with pets. Although I would probably need some assistance to function.

So far, I've only ever lived with other people, and never with anyone who did much to accommodate me. I do not trust that anyone would, so I am suspicious of the idea of living with other people.

Living alone seems to work the best for me.

Much as there are times I wish I lived alone, the reality is that I just don't function when I live alone, I need someone on hand to make sure I eat, get out of bed, go to work etc!

I currently live with my aspie partner and our son. It's the child situation I struggle most with, he is totally reliant on me and at times I find it completely overwhelming, it makes just getting away a lot harder and adds a whole new realm of guilt because I feel I should spend more time socialising with other mothers (and that's just so hard.) When we move we will hopefully be getting a couple of cats as well, we like cats, cats are awesome!

I've never lived on my own. I went from living with my parents to living with my husband, the day after we got married. For me, this is just perfect (not sure what he really thinks tho' ). If I didn't have him, I'd probably have a few dogs and the house would be falling apart. No actually, if I didn't have him, I'd still be with my parents, becoming demented.

Live with spouse/partner who understands you. This one for me, been nearly married for 12 years now and we are both aspies and have two kids, the first already diagnosed and the other is just starting diagnosis.

If you find the right person it can work wonderfully.

Living alone (or alone except for animals) because I prefer living alone though that might change as I get older.

I hate being alone.
I picked living with a spouse who understands me.