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[quote=Anonymous]I feel for you, OP.  My autistic child thought they were going to want and need a single and we have been planning for that (also at a college in PA) for years, getting all of our documentation in order solely for this purpose.

Well, it turns out that my high masking child wanted a roommate.  It was very hard for us as parents to get on board with this knowing that our child needs decompression time.  But, my child and the roommate (whom they met on Instagram) hit it off and asked each other the important questions about living together.  I'm still very scared about how this will go.  If the roommate has friends over and they are sitting on my child's bed, it may not go over so well.

If our college denied us the single and we had in the end asked for it, it would have been a dealbreaker just 6-8 months ago.  Can you have your psychiatrist write a more strongly worded letter in an appeal and have them focus on the dysregulation that will ensue if your child can't stim/unmask/decompress?  (Also, what if the roommate asks your child to change something about how they conduct themselves?  Lay it out for them how it will go down.)[/quote]

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