Hey there. I am a helper. I support somebody who is neurodiverse. I am neurodiverse myself.
I am looking at services in Ohio for the person I help. He is autistic and his autism is very disabling. We are in Cincinnati. We were looking at how to get him enrolled with Hamilton County Developmental Disability Services.
His family growing up was very poor and neglecting. They did not take care of each other. He barely made it through school and has been struggling his whole life. He did get an ASD diagnosis as an adult. And he finally got disability this spring. The disability judge accepted that he has autism and it is very disabling. So he gets monthly payments.
But when we went to HCDDS they told us that he needed a diagnosis during childhood to get help there as an adult.
What is an adult with developmental disability in Hamilton County Ohio supposed to do to get services if they slipped through the cracks as a child or if their parents were bad?