Any advice for starting University when you have Asperger ? Any tips/problems or University’s that have been helpful

[Itscoldouthere]

Just wondering if anyone has any experience to offer?
DS is high functioning ASD moving from home is going to be a pretty big deal, I’m trying not to worry, but obviously I do.
Thanks

[scrunchSE18]

Speaking to (Interrogating) DS about the group interview- there were 2 other candidates, a staff member and current student. They talked about the course, the industry and their experience so far including stuff on software they’d used and also watched the show reels they’d bought with them. Took about an hour. It’s a film/editing course so group work is expected. He just didn’t expect it at interview. An interview at another uni was one to one with a written creative task. For that one he emailed them told them about his dyspraxia and asd and the effect that might have at interview especially as they wanted to see passion for the subject and has a pretty flat affect! He got an offer from that one :-)

[Lancelottie]

From somewhat hard-won experience, I'd say go for a university not too far from home -- an hour's drive, two at the most, for when you get That phone call.

We are 4.5 hours from DS, and it's not good.

[Itscoldouthere]

Scrunch - well done your FS that must have been pretty tough, he did well to get through it and so great he got an offer.

Lancelotttie - I’m sure that’s good advice but not really a possibility for us 1 hr would mean London (not where he wants he live at the moment, we lived there till he was 12 and doesn’t want to go back yet) or Cambridge not possible either, so we have to look further afield.
Must say I was quite glad that he didn’t like Exeter which would have been about 5 hours 😂

[GnomeDePlume]

Lancelottie I would second that. It is helpful that DD's uni is on the same trainline as our nearest mainline station. It's a two hour train journey, sometimes straight through but most often with a simple cross platform change.

Something which has helped DD has been researching the public transport in the university city pretty extensively. Meant that DD was sorted for a bus pass and knew which bus she needed to get from accommodation to the city centre from very early on.

Of course the usual things apply: making sure DC know how to cook, launder, manage money etc.