The Struggle is Real What would it be like if one was denied of a job they really pushed to work for? What if they were finally accepted to work, but were offered less than minimum wage? This is what happens to lots of autistic adults. They are pushed aside just because of their disability. There is an astonishing amount of autistic adults that are left to fend for themselves in society because adult services is no help to them. Adult services is not always the most helpful choice because they go off of availability instead of eligibility, which is a burden for a lot of autistic adults. Since it goes off of availability, it also makes it harder to get a well paying job. While autistic children face challenges today in the world socially and
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Again, adult services go off of availability instead of eligibility. Nearly 40% of young adults do not receive services at all. It is likely that most of them are African American and people with low income (Autism Beyond High School: Are We Ready?). It is essential because they provide helpful service to those adults that are fortunate enough for their resources, but not so fortunate for those that do not get services because they are limited. Lots of times for adult services, there are waiting lists. For example, Connecticut had 15,000 people with intellectual disability that were eligible for adult services but there was limited housing. To get housing while on the waiting list, they would have had to be facing a serious crisis such as: homelessness, abuse, or an illness that was getting worse (Sarris). Not just adults out on their own have trouble though. While students are in high school or lower, teachers work really hard to help students with everything they need and but once they get to college, they have to request what they need and schools will only accept the “reasonable” requests (Sarris). “Some states do not provide developmental disability services for adults with autism unless they also have an intellectual disability,” Anne Roux, a Drexel researcher who worked on the report said. “These policies ignore the fact that many with autism are cognitively-able but still …show more content…
To fix this issue, people would need to look past the autism and just look at the real person. They would need to treat them like real people. Put in place the Golden Rule of “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” Works Cited
"Autism Beyond High School: Are We Ready? ." edited by Teresa Foden, Interactive
Autism Network, 19 July 2011, iancommunity.org/cs/adults/autism_beyond_high_school. Accessed 23 Mar. 2018.
Disability Scoop, Disability Scoop, 2008, https://www.disabilityscoop.com/. Accessed 23
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Hudson, Chloe C., and Kate Harkness. "Almost Half of Adults with Autism Struggle with
Depression." The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2018, theconversation.com/almost-half-of-adults-with-autism-struggle-with-depression-
91889. Accessed 23 Mar. 2018.
Morgan, Lauren. "Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders face challenges finding the help they need." BioNews, 3 May 2017, medium.com/bionews/adults-with-autism-spectrum-disorders-face-challenges-finding- the-help-they-need-745e85cc6c16. Accessed 23 Mar. 2018.
Sarris, Marina. "Coming of Age: Autism and the Transition to Adulthood." Interactive
Again, adult services go off of availability instead of eligibility. Nearly 40% of young adults do not receive services at all. It is likely that most of them are African American and people with low income (Autism Beyond High School: Are We Ready?). It is essential because they provide helpful service to those adults that are fortunate enough for their resources, but not so fortunate for those that do not get services because they are limited. Lots of times for adult services, there are waiting lists. For example, Connecticut had 15,000 people with intellectual disability that were eligible for adult services but there was limited housing. To get housing while on the waiting list, they would have had to be facing a serious crisis such as: homelessness, abuse, or an illness that was getting worse (Sarris). Not just adults out on their own have trouble though. While students are in high school or lower, teachers work really hard to help students with everything they need and but once they get to college, they have to request what they need and schools will only accept the “reasonable” requests (Sarris). “Some states do not provide developmental disability services for adults with autism unless they also have an intellectual disability,” Anne Roux, a Drexel researcher who worked on the report said. “These policies ignore the fact that many with autism are cognitively-able but still …show more content…
To fix this issue, people would need to look past the autism and just look at the real person. They would need to treat them like real people. Put in place the Golden Rule of “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” Works Cited
"Autism Beyond High School: Are We Ready? ." edited by Teresa Foden, Interactive
Autism Network, 19 July 2011, iancommunity.org/cs/adults/autism_beyond_high_school. Accessed 23 Mar. 2018.
Disability Scoop, Disability Scoop, 2008, https://www.disabilityscoop.com/. Accessed 23
Mar. 2018.
Hudson, Chloe C., and Kate Harkness. "Almost Half of Adults with Autism Struggle with
Depression." The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2018, theconversation.com/almost-half-of-adults-with-autism-struggle-with-depression-
91889. Accessed 23 Mar. 2018.
Morgan, Lauren. "Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders face challenges finding the help they need." BioNews, 3 May 2017, medium.com/bionews/adults-with-autism-spectrum-disorders-face-challenges-finding- the-help-they-need-745e85cc6c16. Accessed 23 Mar. 2018.
Sarris, Marina. "Coming of Age: Autism and the Transition to Adulthood." Interactive