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Hi. Im 20 and with autisum which means i cant quite dress and wash myself . But i cant stay at home any longer. My parrents will always claim they not abuseive so i cant just get housing anymore. What do i do.

I'd love to know what university the OP managed to get into.

How on earth do you cope with mooting etc. OP?

"like" to Gins post

Seen this op a few times, very odd.......

So, just ignore it. Report and move on.

He isn't getting money off people or escalating dramatic storylines.

He's describing his life, as he sees it. I'm sure it would look very different if we had other points of view. Most MN stories would!

I'd rather engage even if it is untrue, than ignore if it is.

Sorry for talking about you instead of to you, OP.

If you're capable of attending university and keeping up with a law degree, then you're bloody well capable of figuring out how to wash yourself
I think your parents' claims regarding you being a fantasist are not far wrong, from what you've said here. Although I also don't doubt they may indeed be abusing you.
So I echo what previous posters have said about getting real life help - calling a helpline, for instance.

*here
*suggest.

(Fat fingers on phone)

I'd agree with challenging someone's perception, Runcible, but do you think directly accusing them of lying and saying it's nonsense it's the best way to do that? I would completely ignore someone who said I was lying. If the OP needs help, he is more likely to listen to suggestions which engage with him rather than directly challenge him, I would think. It's the downside of MN sometimes- when so many people talk at the same time, often the OPs can't engage with any of them.

All the autism and student support services in the world are no help to someone who can't face asking for them.

We're in something of this position with DS, who should be getting substantial help at university but just won't or can't engage with the support services.

Unsupported, he quickly becomes depressed and, yes, paranoid, and veers between blaming himself for everything and blaming everyone else for failing to help him - even if he isn't answering calls or texts or messages.

I don't know the answer here, but the situation itself sounds more plausible than it might to others.

Yes, my DS won't ask for help. He literally cannot talk IRL about things which worry him.

Pickle I don't know if you misunderstood my meaning, but I wasn't for a minute suggesting that the OP was lying. I was trying to tactfully suggest that the OP may possibly experiencing either an acute/transitory or chronic period of psychosis/fixed delusional beliefs. I didn't want to alienate/frighten/alarm the poster by saying this overtly, so I was trying to tactfully suggest that this may be the poster's reality but may not in actual fact be the case.

Although I'm sincerely not diagnosis a stranger on the internet, in my professional experience of treating people with delusions/paranoid beliefs/fixed beliefs this could be the case for this poster. This would be:

a) very possible, given the OP's posts and how much they chime with very regular themes and vocab used by people with paranoid delusions. Also could explain the self-contradictory and befuddling factors here such as not being at the cognitive level of problem-solving around personal care yet able to study Law at University. Not being able to leave the house to seek help but presumably attending lectures. These things are in themselves non-sensical (although I agree that my use of the term 'nonsense' was inappropriate, and I apologise).

b)neither derogatory nor stigmatising - there is no value judgement involved here (unless people attach more stigma to functional mental ill-health than to diagnoses of autism etc)

c)potentially helpful for the poster (as was my intention) and for other posters who may wish to consider this as a potential factor that is going-on for the OP (and which may guide the suggestions for help and support).

Just to reiterate - I am not saying the OP definitely experiences delusional beliefs - all I'm saying is that in both my professional experience (psychiatry) and my personal experience (I've experienced a period of terrifying paranoid delusions) for a person to experience such beliefs is common and far more widespread than perhaps many posters and the general population would realise. Therefore it might be worth MNers considering this when in discourse with other MNers who are giving accounts of what they believe they are experiencing.There should be less stigma around that type of illness, and we should not be afraid to raise this as a possible area of concern for the OP.

OP - I'm bowing out now, as I don't think my input can be of help, but I sincerely hope you feel safer and clearer about things soon (whatever this looks like). I wish you all the best and hope you can source whatever help you believe you need.

We're really grateful for any reports we receive but we won't allow troll hunting on threads and would appreciate it if everyone could post within guidelines (or perhaps step away from the thread if this is going to be a problem).

Thanks for your understanding on this.

Sorry Runcible it wasn't your posts which accused OP of lying.

I'm fuming. Last night I emailed my disablity support worker after my mum banned me from revising at night. Today she emails back defending my mums point of view. I give up.

Could you explain in which way your parents are abusive?

Calling me names and plotting against me making freinds..