When you are a child, with or without a disability, it is quite normal for you to be dependent on your parents and other family members. At some point however, most young adults will want to “fly the nest” – and even if they don’t really want to, they will.
However, when the young adult has a developmental disability, such as autism, it is may be a lot more difficult for them to get to the stage where they feel ‘grown up’ enough to leave the family home and start to live independently as an adult. A common theme which runs in women with ASD is that we often still feel incredibly young inside, yet, in many situations, behave as an adult and cope as a responsible adult. It is incredibly difficult having such uneven/unsymmetrical emotional and intellectual skills, for example, we may have an above average IQ, a fantastic eye for detail, the memory of an elephant….. yet have meltdowns when our routine gets disrupted or when someone says or does the ‘wrong’ thing. One of the most common causes of meltdowns is CHANGE, and what happens when you go from being a child to being an adult? There are a lot of changes.
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