So there just need to be more services and more input and more input from places like the National Autistic Society. They have things like Prospects that look out for people, employers that are willing to take on people on the spectrum and willing to work along with them. But it is only in certain areas and it has only got a limited amount of funding and there is only certain, you know occupations that go along with it.

 

And people need training as to what kind of occupations suit these kids rather than them all being thrown into trying things that are absolutely hair-raising. Be put in front line of a shop if you don’t want to deal with people is dreadful but if there was more education into the fact that these are ones to perhaps avoid and try something that is more solitary or more uniform or … then a lot of heartache would have been stopped and an awful lot of depression. You know that is what comes in adulthood is all the mental health issues that go along with suddenly thinking goodness I am left on the shelf. Everyone is going to work and I am not. Every one has got a qualification and I haven’t and that seems to go along with it all, you know. That a lot of the time people on the spectrum take an awful lot longer to do things and think things and process things and time needs to be given. I keep trying to teach Luke it isn’t the end of the world that you haven’t got GCSEs when you are eighteen but it is to him because he thinks what next? You know, and he doesn’t know what next and unfortunately neither do I. You know, I can’t give any concrete answers to it but the transition is something that is massively important and massively overlooked. Hopefully that will be the next stage that people will realise. That all these teenage Aspergery people will have to do something after it. So ….