" Too late "

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I feel like it's too late for me now sometimes ( Again , pounding this out..... )...I guess I AM more autistic that I " thought I was " , but there'dss no money available , no adult relatives left who care about me...

Ok.. well I don't really have anything constructive to say.. but I didn't want to say nothing. I'm sorry that things are so difficult.

It's never too late... well, almost never; I guess if you are currently falling from an 80-story building it could be too late... but really, almost never. People have come back from being in prison, for example, and that's about the lowest a person can go. Lots of people have come back from being homeless. There are people who've graduated from college after failing out, or gotten and kept a job after being fired; and most people who get a mental illness either recover or successfully manage it long-term.

I don't know if you are like this, but often times when I feel like that, it isn't that there really isn't a way out of whatever situation I'm in, but that I simply can't see it. I think linearly, so if my original solution gets blocked, I often gravitate immediately to "impossible". It usually isn't impossible, though; and when it is, there is often another equally good path leading someplace else just as interesting.

Many of us do have nobody but ourselves to depend on. That can be frustrating, and it can make things a lot slower and harder; but it can also force you to learn things that are difficult and necessary.

Wish I could do something to help but all good resource I know are in Canada and I can only offer an awkward moral support for I know what you are passing through and I know telling you don't will not help because asking any living being to live in this state is ... (no word for it), but just make sure you really did all that possible before you take a step.


Feel free to send PM if you just want someone to talk to, I admit I don't risk to answer until the morning for getting late here, but you don't really want me to answer any emotional contain while I am in zombie mind state.

...Could only skim answers , have nearly NO time left , if I'd been born later , maybe I'd have " less freedom " but people would , maybe , " care about me " more ...

Captain Sheridan would say that if you're falling off a mountain, you may as well try to fly, you've got nothing to lose.. I think that applies to an 80-story building, too.. Yea, I know that's kinda random.. but.. I couldn't help it..

...What I said before .

Well, you're diagnosed. You can get disability if you need it, and other services as well. That's all I can really recommend.

Hello Ass-P

Don't you have any grown-ups left around you?
Someone who cares and could help you with the demanding things and all?

What do you mean by "nearly no time left"?
Are you in good health?
Is it about being able to keep your home?

Last edited by zena4 on 09 Aug 2009, 2:52 am, edited 1 time in total.

I have that feeling a lot too... even though I've gotten my educational diagnosis, people have just decided I'm the "weirdo" and that is how it stays. There isn't a whole lot of support, I've had a lot of trouble holding jobs (being fired for being just too "weird" or just not adequate enough social skills)...

I'm glad my son got his diagnosis early on. My family is very supportive of him with it.

As far as I go, the most support I get is from my boyfriend, and that gets pretty rough at times too, because we are just so very different in how we view things.

As far as the rest of my family (basically my mom is the only one I talk to a lot about things), I'm just a lazy screw-up who can't get her life together. Love the support.

[quote="zena4"]Hello Ass-P

Don't you have any grown-ups left around you?
Someone who cares and could help you with the demanding things and all?

...No , not really . A part of me wants it , a part of me is all adolescent/sullen pre-teen and " No , leave me alone ! " . Such sentimental-ness...........