Autism and Homelessnes

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A new study has found severe links between autism and homelessness

I think it depends on the person and the situation. Britain has a huge homeless crisis going on and there are some homeless people with Mental Health issues.

When it comes to Autistic people there are ways and skills that can prevent homelessness that can be done independently. For example Skills in things like Money-Management etc.

Well that's just f*****g great innit, becoming homeless is my WORST ever nightmare and now I've read this it almost made me s**t myself.

'Be proud of your autism' they say.

f**k autism. It's a f*****g curse. I might as well just commit suicide.

This is a reminder that we should be compassionate towards homeless people, and work to end homelessness once and for all, so that we do not join their number.

I was homeless 2004-2006 and a friend that I made during that time was diagnosed aspergers. At the time I think I had heard of it but didn't know much about it and when I researched I was like holy s**t that seems like me. I was diagnosed asd-1 a few years ago.

I'd be surprised if this wasn't the case since us autistics tend to have a harder time finding & maintaining employment, harder time getting along with others, & a harder time handling the tasks of daily living(managing budgets, paying bills, keeping our homes nice & neat ect)

This is an interesting thread. When I was age 6 thru 14, I remember being jealous of street children, or young kids who didn't have a home. I learned about it from textbooks and videos in social studies. Their lives looked and felt like paradise to me. They had the entire city as their oyster and playground, free of rules, restrictions, and obligations, that plagued my everyday life. In 3rd grade, I read an excerpt from "Les Miserables", where Garvoche lived on the streets of Paris, and did whatever he wanted. The whole time, I kept thinking: "Man, why can't I live like that!" I constantly fantasized about running away from home, living on the streets, improvising toys out of found objects, playing with stray animals, building bonfires out of street debris to keep warm and heat up food, and sleeping under the stars in summer and inside the Amtrak station in winter.

Of course, today, I know that homelessness isn't the paradise I imagined it to be. Even so, I completely understand the homeless people who prefer to live on streets instead of the Y or the city shelter.

Ever since I saw this thread I've been having tummy trouble. Like I said in an earlier post in this nightmare fuel of a thread, being homeless is one of my worst ever fears. I don't want to be at risk of being homeless. I get frightened of the streets as it is, and those homeless shelter places are terrifying too because I heard they're full of angry drug-addicts.

Nobody in this thread seems to give a s**t about becoming homeless. It seems I'm the only one worried by it.

Next time these f**ktards that do these terrifying studies want to scare the f**k out of people like me, I don't know why they don't just shoot themselves in the head in front of me.

Like I said in my ignored post, f**k autism. It brings nothing but s**t. Because of it I'm going to be homeless sometime in my life.

One swallow doesn't make a Summer, one study doesn't make a scientific fact, and fear not, I am an old person who is not and has never been homeless.

Please note that the study didn't equate AS with homelessness - what it surmised was that AS seemed over-represented, however the samples were not diagnosed AS people in a controlled setting. It seems that other conditions were not readily distinguished from AS in this informal sampling. So there would be confounding variables and little content validity in an informal survey like this.

Those of us, like me, with adult children, are perhaps a bit more fortunate should everything turn to custard for us. I have insurance should my dwelling place be wiped out by fire, flood, earthquake or whatever, and am reasonably prudent though not excessively so. A reasonably good life even in old age is possible, though not everyone is so fortunate; still, most of us have a roof over our head and food to eat, so the leap to assumptions of worst case scenarios is hopefully not so scary to you when put in the wider context of realities.

I understand your anxiety though not everything turns out as badly as possible in life.

^^ To me, the thing is that there are Aspie ways back off the street. Don't just give up - a unique perspective also reveals opportunities that others miss. I can live far better in a car than most people in a van. When I went to visit a friend in a super high-rent area, I found him living and working in a double garage. He slept in the rafters, and used a laundry tub for most water-related activity. Yes, you can shower in one. I, however, had to defecate, so he took me down a short path, where what appeared to be an overgrown scrap of plywood turned out to be the hinged cover for a redwood-lined pit toilet in immaculate condition, complete with toilet roll. From that location, he changed the bicycle industry.

No sh!t dude......look at all the money they spent to find out something that is OBVIOUS to many of us.

I've actually done this twice......two different families at different times.

I agree with you, Fnord