ScienceGeek

It's finally all sorted!!

Nope still not sorted. Got the student loan part but not the maintenance grant or fee loan yet, hoping it will be sorted soon though

General home support, help organising things, communicating with various official things etc.

It went well, it seems there are a fair few things she can help with. She understood fairly well where I was coming from and has worked with quite a few others with an ASD. Will be seeing her again next Friday

My new floating support worker is coming today for the first time and I'm nervous about it. She will be here in 1hr and I feel sick from worrying I've never had this kind of support before so I don't know what to expect

I have gaps in my memory from the same time, and also had a breakdown around the same time as you. I don't remember much of secondary school at all, I can remember things from under 11 and 17+ but anything between those are a complete and utter blank.

Thanks, I've joined the boards just haven't got around to posting yet.

Lots of good stuff going on at the moment, just a lot of change as well Starting my new course properly on Monday, picking up the keys to our new flat on Thursday, moving next weekend, having first session with support worker on Wednesday. Currently going through testing for celiac and awaiting an appointment to be seen about hypermobility syndrome. Getting input from NAS outreach team soon. It's all coming together at once, so much to think about I think my brain will explode.

Congratulations mate You'll settle in no time We pick up the keys for our new place on Thursday

Ok it's still a mess. Got declaration form this morning and the notification is completely wrong. It says I didn't apply for fee loan even though I did (I checked my online application), also it has nothing about my maintenance grant and worked out that with their figures I'm 1k down this year on last years funding I wish these people would get their act together already.

Well it has been approved as of Wednesday just awaiting the declaration form to be signed.

look at the letters and rearrange abgn = bang but the letters out of order = bang out of order

lol

I get incredibly anxious about having to make a phone call. If there is any way to communicate then I will explore every other avenue first, some people are only reachable by phone though If I do have to phone I end up spending a lot of energy psyching myself up to it or end up putting it off for a long time (then things don't get sorted ). I know quite a few people who have problems with phones. I really don't like mobile phones, well only for text at least, they always make me jump because of the sudden noise out of nowhere.

"Autism Speaks" are notorious for being awful. The Asperger livejournal community is littered with stories about autism speaks lashing out at autistics that dare to challenge them on their policies.

Yes I am concerned about cuts, I've only just managed to arrange help and am worried that it will be taken away.

Mine was awarded 1 year first time then 3 years this time

Hi Willow, I hope that you manage to sort something, this is completely unreasonable considering that there were previous accommodations in place. It is ridiculous to make such a big deal out of this (from the school I mean). SG

Yeah I'm going to pop into the advice and welfare service place on campus tomorrow. I saw online that there is a short term emergency loan that I can apply for which is up to £300 so am going to apply to that. Plus I'm taking part in a study which will get me another £40

I'm not sure about the connection but I would get it sorted though. I have a lot of problems with my feet and achilles tendons because of the toe walking not being sorted. I'm 25 now and have problems walking for long distances because of it.

Just offloading frustration here! I applied for my student loan for this year, about 6 months ago! It still hasn't been assessed, there was some mix up between the uni and the LEA. LEA claming they hadn't received paperwork from uni and uni saying they had already sent it. I can't even get a provisional sum because they need the confirmation that I've changed over to psychology. I'm supposed to start monday, was relying on that money coming through. So now have no money, no food and don't know when it will all be sorted I had my first head banging full on meltdown in ages because of this, and boy my head hurts an hour after that fact. Anyone else in student loan misery? Edit: Just rang them up and apparently it's going to take them a week to process it, then student finance will send me out a declaration form then I have to send that back. In total that should take 2 weeks meaning I have no money, no food and Em has no fuel to get to work for 2 weeks! I have no idea what I'm going to do

This sounds exactly like I was when I was younger. My reading age was always way beyond what it should have been. I found school very boring because I didn't find any of it particularly challenging, it was only when I went to university that it even came close to stretching. The biggest complaint I had about school was the boredom, and spent most of my time helping those who were struggling. I would encourage it though, books about interests, visits to museums. My mum used to say that I was born 30, my language was so formal and I had next to no interest in conversing with other children (mostly because they didn't understand what I was chatting on about ). While most children were running around and digging holes, climbing trees, I was talking about Kosovo, famine, religion, politics (how I didn't like the Tories ) . Eventually people caught up with me, but I can still bore people silly and not even realise it

I don't know of any specifically for children that age, a lot of the forums have a 13+ limit on them.

Has anyone on here been involved with the NAS community outreach? My social worker said that I'm going to be getting some help and input from them regarding anxiety/mental health/sensory problems. I don't think I know anybody they have been involved with yet.

Same here! Then again I haven't actually asked about the timetable yet, I probably should.