Wealthy parents associated with autism?

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My parents began as refugees living as a family of four in a single condemned motel room without a dollar to their names, relying on welfare for food and neighbors for discarded furniture and clothing.

Within 20 years they had escalated to being millionaires. They are millionaires now and very smug ones.

I went through every possible level of wealth throughout my childhood. None of it made any difference.

Yep. I see this attitude in teachers at my school. The rich kids have learning disabilities where the poor ones are "you know, the ones you don't want in your class".

When I was little my family was very concerned about my behavior but since it wasn't killing me the money was better spent on trying to get a heater (which took 4 years). It sucks to wear your coat in the house. It sucks way more than being a weirdo, IMO. And I think that was my family's reasoning, too.

Not quite that bad, but close. Several Christmases with no presents, no tree - a couple with no heat. Nowhere near wealthy.

I hope you get so rich you can afford to have the defeat of the Spanish Armada re-enacted in the Rome Coliseum....with your pocket change.....every Friday.

I come from a working class family where both parents worked.

My parents are middle class but I am an only child. Maybe being an only child made my Autism worse because I was by myself more?
Poor children in the US are covered by Medicaid, so diagnosis for an impoverished child is possible.

My family has always been middle classed. Military dad, UPS/Wal-Mart/teacher mom.

My parents are considered upper-middle class.

I come from a very long line of partly-skilled working class. Probably going back millennia. I have a hundred year old wedding certificates my ancestors, who worked in factories and stuff, couldn't sign. I break the cycle by being educated, but continue it by still having a modest income.

I understand the theory here and my parents are upper middle class but at the time i was born they were 20 and 21 and they were broke college students with a kid.

Nope, not wealthy here. My parents both were originally working-class, made it to middle-class, now are retired on a fixed income and at one point had to do things like sell a gold tooth to make ends meet.