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I want her to have a little struggle with being an adult Though. Like that realization that's she's no longer a child and feels those adult like pressures, you know? That's what I felt when I turned 18. I felt the pressure and realization that I'm no longer a child. Some adults, like me, don't always live full happy lives either. I can't hold own a job without a nervous breakdown. I did once and nearly had a panic attack. D:

Maybe because its not much of a problem when the child grows up?

Some of the hardest things a parent has to go through when a child is with disabilities is the judgment. How that child will be treated at school and in public. The child doesn't know people are just buttholes sometimes. So the child takes it to heart and acts out. That's what my cousin does anyway.

When that child grows up, and if that child grows up with the experience of being born with disabilities; as in he or she wasn't sheltered, then they can live an average lifestyle. I have an older cousin who is also autistic and he is almost forty years old. He has a wife and a child and he is able to live on his own quite fine. Because he understood people are going to judge him, people are going to sense something is wrong and they will torment him for it. He stopped caring.

It's up to you if you make your character on the stronger side or the lesser side of the autistic spectrum. If its stronger, then she most likely will never live completely on her own. If its on the lesser side, most likely she is living on her own with help. You have to choose what kind of parents she has too. If they support her by helping her, or just be like, screw it and leave her to deal with her life alone. Just depends on who you made the character.

But like I said, there is medication that helps with some of the side effects like anxiety and depression. It can help someone to be more independent, but then it also depends where they are on the spectrum. It's different for every person though.

If that helps any.

@ Psychotic Secrets
I know. I take medication for some of my symptoms. I won't get too personal about it here but... yeah. It's going to be somewhere in between, like the way I have Autism. I can be normal one day, then completely panic over some little thing the next. She's still going to have her little behaviors like, flapping when she's excited, making animal noises (some people with autism do that. I do with my cat.), rocking if she's nervous or anxious or whatever... stuff like that. That way the readers get the idea that they are dealing with someone who's on the spectrum. It's basically going to be about her struggles between being a child in an adult's body, if that makes sense.

Still, there really isn't anything on the internet that talks about adulthood, because everyone always panics over their CHILD being autistic. You hear very little, if anything, about an adult with autism.

Well people don't "grow" out of autism. They will have it their entire life. Some take medication to ease their mind, but they will still have it. You just need to choose what kind of case they have, tone it down a tad bit, or make it worse, and make the character like that. Depends on the personality of the character.

@ Psychotic Secrets
Oh yeah. Lol I forgot. I kind of just need more experiences than my own. I can't research on adulthood and autism because it's all about CHILDREN with autism. D:

Like always, I can help you anyway you need. I have a family member who is Autistic and I have worked with Autistic children. If you need anything just PM me. OH and congratulations! You have earned it.