Dear MisunderstoodAustistic

Sorry to hear about your situation.

Let me know if I’ve got this right – so you rented a place for yourself, where you had to pay the rent, power, water, etc. However later on, you found out that it was a sub-lease, which wasn’t allowed, so you were forced to move out (or you voluntarily moved out knowing that it was bad for you.) Now that you have moved out, you do not have a place to stay and you’ve asked council for homeless help. But they might ask questions that might put you or your landlord in an uncomfortable position.

Is that correct?

I guess what I think might work for you is that:

1) You urgently need somewhere to settle down. Do you have family members or friends that can help you? I don’t know what country you’re in, and how things work over there. If you have some money with you, can you find somewhere like a backpackers place where you can stay for a few days or a couple weeks (instead of being “homeless”, which I suppose, is not good for you)? You have to be sure that you can take care of yourself.

2) Perhaps it is too late now. But you need a “contingency” plan for whatever you are going to do. I think you might be a bit too reckless when you moved out. You do not have a place to stay. It is better for you to know where you are going so that you can be sure that you’re safe. I’m more worried about you than whatever it is about the situation where you or your landlord might get into trouble.

3) If the landlord allowed you to live there without letting you know that it is not allowed under the lease, then they must be responsible for that. However it does not mean that you have to put them under the spotlight if the council does ask you questions. You could be more “generic” in your answer, for example, you can say that you used to share a place with someone. But for some reasons you’re not allowed back to that place anymore, so you need help.

4) I don’t mean to judge you but I think your name really got my attention. Let me know if I have interpreted it correctly. So you are either formally diagnosed or you’re aware that you have autism (or ASD), and you feel that you might be misunderstood if you ask anything here that might not make sense to others. Could you please let me know whether I have understood the above correctly? (If you are comfortable with it, we can discuss it further.)

Take care.