At preasent there is absolutely NOTHING at all for asperger/autistic ADULTS. simply because those of us who have grown up but NOT grown out of asperger/autism are so very few and very far apart. People very too away are not much company, you can never go out for coffee, cinema, visit and meet each week with somone a hundred or a thousand miles away. Each of us are alone and isolated in very seperate parts of the world.

There are a lot af asperger/autistic people in the world but 98% of them are all only children.

I know that one day there will eventually be suitable services and suppoprt for asperger/autistic adults, but it will not be for at least another 10-15 years from now because it will take that many years for enough of these children to come of the age of being adults with adult needs and no longer spending their lives sitting in classrooms every day.

Even than I do not think I will have a place to truly fit-in because I will be 25 years older than everybody else. I will be more like their parents not an equal with them. Because of a whole generation age difference there will be a social barrier especially tastes in music and films. I will be the "old biddy" among them. I do not at all like this dreadful inequality, mainly because I am one of THEM.

The social services and other people I know have now come the end of all possibiltie of finding services which are suitable for me, an Indepandant living asperger/autistic ADULT. Even if there are enough finances, resources and manpower to create services for asperger/autistic adults, it would not work because there are simply not enough of us to set up a service for. You cannot have a day-center/faciltes for only ONE or TWO people.

The bottom line is People like me will have to spend our lives for the next 15 years just waiting for a bunch of kids to grow up.

There is more to lif than just WAITING, live is to be LIVED. I need to find a different new plan of action , a new strategy needs to be created. Could you help with any ideas.

July 2000