Posts Tagged ‘Failure to Launch’
Overcoming Anxiety Related Failure to Launch Issues
Anxiety can be extremely difficult to describe and understand because all of us at times are anxious, and this phenomenon manifests itself in a variety of ways. It may show up in our body by us genuinely having headaches, stomach aches, nausea, or muscle tension. The pain and other uncomfortable physical sensations are real, and…
Read MoreOvercoming Overwhelm: Find the Right College for You
Whether you are a first-time freshman, transfer student, or a potential graduate school student, you will be faced with the question of how to find the RIGHT college for you. With the large number of schools throughout the United States, our diverse staff of education professionals, therapists, life coaches, and independent living specialists at Optimum…
Read MoreOvercoming Failure to Launch with Music
“Music is the Universal Language.” This may be true, but why is it? I, being an English speaker, may listen to Tristan Und Isolde, an opera by German composer Richard Wagner, and miss the whole point because I don’t understand German. Even if the opera is performed in English, part of the message may be…
Read MoreCareer Planning for Young Adults with Asperger’s Disorder
Because of the age range of the young adults that we work with, we generally see participants in the exploration phase of their career process. According to Donald Super’s “Stages of Occupational Development,” people in their late teens and early twenties are beginning to try out new experiences and different roles in relation to career…
Read MoreFailure to Launch: Finding Hope for Struggling Young Adults
Hope means possibility – possibility for change, possibility for happiness, possibility for something better than what currently is. Hope can be a driving force to create change, it can increase motivation, and it can be the very thing that turns stagnation into movement forward and possibly lasting change. Many of our participants have lost hope…
Read MoreMy Young Adult Child with Asperger’s: Out of the Nest and Into the World
Most parents feel some degree of anxiety and reluctance about releasing their young adult children out into this difficult world. Rejection, failure, and heartbreak are staples to maturity and success but parents often feel a need to protect their children from these pains. When you have a young adult who is suffering from Asperger’s disorder,…
Read MoreFailure to Launch: Discovering Your Personal Path
Once there was a little girl who had dreams of becoming a doctor, a ballet dancer, and the president all at the same time. What she didn’t know at that age was that she would need skills, successes, and support to help her achieve those goals. Fast-forward eighteen years, and this little girl is now…
Read MoreDefining Success & Failure to Launch
“You’re a loser!” “You’re pathetic!” “You can’t do anything right!” Negative self-talk often accompanies a lack of self-confidence. Lack of self-confidence can result from any number of stimuli, and one of the more common of these is a perceived lack of success. Perceived lack of success and failure are basically the same with one critical…
Read MoreAnxiety, Transitioning to Adulthood, & Failure to Launch
Anxiety: “A feeling of worry, nervousness or unease, typically about something with an uncertain outcome.” Isn’t everything in life uncertain to a certain degree? Becoming a young adult, becoming independent, and taking on new responsibilities of life all come with a lot of uncertainties and a lot of unknowns. This time of life causes anxiety…
Read MoreFailure to Launch Syndrome: Overcoming a Lack of Clear Direction
There was probably a time in your life when you had a lack of a sense of direction. You had a general idea of what you wanted but needed that extra push to get there. Whether it was school, career, or even volunteer-wise, you knew what general direction you wanted to head but didn’t have…
Read MoreYou Are Your Choices, Even the Ones You’re Afraid to Make
As I attempt to expand on psychologist Barry Swartz’s work on the ‘Paradox of Choice,’ I am aware that you could spend the next three minutes online reading about any topic you could imagine. Entering those three words quoted above into a search box, I am met with 3.7 million results right at my fingertips;…
Read MoreAsperger’s and Getting Unstuck (Overcoming Failure to Launch Syndrome)
Why is it that young adults with Asperger’s often struggle when it is time to launch into adulthood and independent living? Is it due to their difficulties in the social world? Is it due to their thinking style? Is it due to their challenges with day to day independent living skills? I believe that it…
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