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Poverty and Self-Knowledge - Both Enemies of Autism

I think poverty is the greatest deterrent to personal success. But after poverty, the biggest obstacle is the desire to have a coordinate effort for self-improvement in the Aspies.

With wealth, Bob Wright decided to try to cure his autistic grandchild. This is why we have (censored). What a pity. But this is even reflected in Aspies in rich families themselves, you know? Instead of finding out their gifts, they think they are, you know, faults!

But also with wealth, with tons of money, many more autistic people who have the interest in science can afford to pursue an academic career without regard to economic pressures. With wealth, a lot of Aspies can just write, draw or do animations. With wealth, many autistic people can build things and be Einsteins.

With economic considerations, I believe my own possible foray in whatever I like to do is limited not by my money, or even energy concerns as I buy supplements to boost my own energy levels, but rather how I manage to continue improve in whatever I am doing.

Now, we're spending our money to stop all autism and its possible gifts from happening. What's worse, even worse than stopping autism, is that the poor remain poor and bright poor people cannot achieve their dreams.

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And actually, poverty is a bigger problem than autism. Poverty reduces the options for the development of the autistic individual. It's inevitable that the autism genes will be eliminated, for better or for, actually, worse, no matter how I see it. But with or without autism, there is still poverty.

We need to solve the fundamental issues of poverty - even without the creative and possibly useful views of autistic people. The disavantaged should band together to protest against oppression - but then, oppression will still be there, and manifests itself in different forms.
 

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