TRUTHFULLY: Are we the autistic doomed?

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Nothing wrong with being proud of being Aspie. Thinking you're superior to NTs, there's something wrong with that; but not with being proud of who you are. Disability pride can be a foreign concept to people who haven't encountered it before, but I assure you it's perfectly rational.

I don't feel that I'm doomed at all. I feel free to do what I want. I'm not doomed. I don't suffer, either.

I am doomed because I cannot just up and get over all the negatives in my life...

Autistics may not be doomed but face a long uphill battle due to discrimination in the work place. My former boss is absolutely convinced that autistics can not operate computers due to their bad memories. My boss feels that if an autistic cannot do a simple job then they cannot possibly handle a job with increased responsibility.

Bosses love to punish autistics collectively. For example my coworker is an alcoholic and shows up at work 30 minutes late. Although the alcoholic got sent home I was also punished by having my work hours reduced even though I was on time. At work my bosses constantly tell me that I am too slow and that I goof off all of the time. To prove these bosses wrong I started cranking up the production. Now my Boss complains that I am using up too much material.

For an autistic it is always a no win situation at work. I am always attacked and I am always abused. I thought I had one thing going for me because I can always pass a drug test. But now the bosses accuse me of cheating on that drug test. The bosses yell at me and accuse me of wasting company time because it takes time to produce a urine sample. So I decided to drink lots of water so I wouldn't waste time and now I am accused of dilluting the urine sample. One boss bragged about his methamphetamine use and then he fired me and sent my Union a letter of condemnation demanding that they confiscate my Journeman's certificate for being too slow. When my Union representative got a hold of that letter he then had a field day and pounced on me because he was absolutely convinced that I was not a Journeman even though I am certified by the State of California.

Pretty much. I look forward to my eternal damnation. I need somewhere to warm my hands.

I think the younger generation will have a batter chance than us gen x's/y'ers. Even before that. But most people from that era have worked. I'll probably never get a job and live with my mum forever. I'm neither happy or sad about that. It's just he way it is.

We're not doomed just 'cos we're autistic, it's actually the rest of the planet that would be doomed without people with ASD's.

If you want proof you just need to look at some of the greatest autistic minds out there to see how good this world has become thanks to them

Bill Gates - Without him there would be no Microsoft, no Internet Explorer, we'd probably be still trying to use computers based on Unix (although wouldn't surprise me if even the Unix developers probably mainly all had Asperger's - who else could manage to shorten the English language down to two/three letters at a time like vi, rm, rd and then have the intelligence to remember the difference between rd /*.* and rm /*.* (one will wipe every single drive mounted on your Unix machine, whilst the other will just wipe out files in the root )

Albert Einstein - Not diagnosed with AS, however pretty damn sure he did have it, had some of the other tell tale signs like Dyslexia, and high intelligence. So without him - no theory of relativity, etc.

John Lennon - Again same as Albert Einstein, not dx'ed but pretty certain - again had dyslexia, and left handed - without him we would have no Beatles, no 60's peace love and unity era, the Volkswagen campervan probably would have never been a big hit, Yoko Ono Lennon would still be a nobody. Liverpool would never have become as world famous for music acts as it has, Pirate radio would never have been born (to fight the rubbish that BBC and politicians were restricting everyone to). No Imagine song

Jim Henson - No muppets - can you imagine the world with no muppets and no sesame street.

So I think it's more that this world would be doomed if people with Asperger's weren't around more than the other way.

Society has to be careful in marginalising minorities. exclude them too much and they may re-group and attack the main culture. So I'd say we're as safe as anybody from doom. Not that that's saying much.

There is NO PROOF that Einstein, Lennon or Gates have AS. None of these people profess autism.

Autistics really are quite doomed in the sense that the odds are stacked largely against us in this world. We have to work really hard against these odds in order to succeed. Not impossible but sometimes improbable.