Housing

These tips and more can help you lighten and liven up your relationship with your autistic roommate, even if you can’t understand their experiences firsthand. 

Eager to learn more and imagine brighter futures for autistic people, we asked members of our group for autistic adults, Getting Together on the Spectrum, to share their visions of autistic-friendly housing. 

I was adopted. So, it wasn’t until my biological grandmother reached out to my parents and told them that it might be good to see a psychologist because of our family medical history. In 1999, my parents and I reached out to the Autism Society of BC in Nanaimo.

Most families with autistic or neurodivergent children want their loved one to receive housing support once they become adults. Yet, housing resources are limited.