What if an Aspie won the lottery?

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You would be better of taking the lump sum and investing the money yourself. That way you could receive the interest for the rest of your life. Not just for 20 years. With good research it's not that hard to invest money. But if you can't do it, you could just hire a financial planner to do it.

Never said that I wouldn't invest or save some, but I can do that over years as opposed to all at once to. Only getting a bit each year is so I don't spend it all before getting my ducks in a row.

If I won I would not give any of it to anyone. I have no friends, and I don't speak to my family much. I would sell both my houses and buy one with as much land as I could find. I'm set up solar panels and windmills, I'd get cattle and pigs and chickens. I'd have a garden big enough to feed me through out the whole year. Me and my partner would stay there and never have to see another human being again! Completely self sufficient. And anything we wanted we couldn't make ourselves, well we'd have the money to buy it.

Seriously, is there a person alive who hasn't thought of that?

Sorting out new "friends" wouldn't be a problem. I've never had any IRL so anyone claiming to be will just be making a fool of themselves.

There are exactly two people I have trusted IRL; my mother and my grandfather (he's dead). No-one else. My mother would know, but I'd hate to tell my father because he'd no doubt yap to his rels and they won't get any of what's mine. I owe them nothing.

No-one but first degree rels would be told.

Now, winning the lottery could mean any sum of money, from just enough to enjoy yourself a bit to being secure for life. I'll assume we're talking millions here and lots of them.

I'd get everything I currently want of material goods, which means quite a few books, some games and some DVDs.
Long term I'll look into a new place to live. I'll be real picky about it too. I might still keep the old place (I'm assuming money really isn't an issue) because it's in a central spot near everything. Very convenient.

I'd donate to things that matter to me, like Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Leatherback Trust and similar, and sanctuaries for chelonians.

I would get myself an old VW Beetle.

I'd hire someone who can draw and have them draw nice pics for my story and then I'd self-publish it.

And I'd invest money safely so I'd live safely off it, but I'd have to look into that more. No spur of the moment decisions like that for me.


That must be like the world's worst consolation prize!

I want to win the lottery so bad. It's the only way I'll ever have any significant amount of money in my life.

If I did I'd set an amount to just blow first to get it out of my system and have the rest budgeted to last over the next 20 years or so so I don't somehow blow it all right away like some lottery winners. I don't really want or need a lot. I'd buy a new house and furnish it, a new computer or two, and then I'd be happy.

As another suggested earlier, I would gleefully use the money to become even more of a recluse

I would probably buy a new computer (current one is 10 years old).

I no longer have a car, and would likely keep it that way.

My one luxury would be to again hire a weekly maid service. I did that when I was working and had the money - loved it.

If I won the lottery, I'd take and invest most of it in stock options and real estate. That way, it would continue growing, and give me the ability to donate a percentage to a charity of my choice yearly without worrying about it depleting. And yes, what's an aspie without their own private island XD I'll take one of those bad boys.

My favorite "money to burn" fantasy is to buy land in some really beautiful place, build a compound with homes and meeting places and laboratories, artists studios, music studios and places to hang out and look at the view. 'All the buildings would have views and there would little pretty places outside so people could work on any project outside when it was nice or raining or snow because you could cover them (maybe mini shacks with heaters for cold). People would be able to come and live and do science experiments or work on art or come up with inventions or ways to make the earth a better place, whatever they wanted to work on!

I would have my own home there, but it wouldn't be huge, but it would be a little bit away from the rest, just enough for privacy not isolation.

And there would be a huge kitchen with a staff to cook healthy meals and anytime anyone didn't feel like cooking they could go there and eat.

I figure any time you get a bunch of people together there will be arguments and trouble causers - so there will be one building where people can go to argue (kind of like the politics section here). Anywhere else, they have to be nice. If any one person causes trouble over and over, out they go! If they have mental health issues, they can get help instead of being booted out, but if nothing works, OUT they go!

We would have gardens and stuff and people would have to contribute with work or money for their rent.

Utopia!

I know that if I won the lottery the first thing I would do is leave work, and then I'll go from there.

I'd spend a month in London by myself to see all the places the Mods hung out during the 1960s. London would be my adventure playground for 31 days and than I'd come back to Langley. I'd give my friends and family each a generous amount of money while keeping two thirds to myself. I'd move into a condo and decorate it pea green and get a couple of stuffed Peahawks custom made for my pea green sofa. I'd invest 1,000,0000 of that money in crude rich which is the most premium gold that can be bought. I'd also be able to give my family and friends a lavish Christmas in future years as well. I'd also buy myself a vintage Routemaster, and get myself a Class 4 license so I can drive it.

Buy every sports car I ever wanted, invest in my own business and others, have a nice big house with so many rooms that I'll fill with things I like, try and air my own anime on TV, I'd avoid family reunions because distant relatives that I never met or heard of or only met as a baby would start asking me for money or try to live with me.

Most people don't have enough financial and business savvy to analyze a prospective investment in either a new or existing business and how to structure such an investment. Most would likely lose their investments pretty quickly.

Also, handling your own investments would leave you wide open to friends and family putting pressure on you to loan them money an all kinds of schemes.

I would have no problem at all with winning the lottery. I know exactly what to do with people who would just pop out of the woodwork claiming to be friends. They can take that claim and put it where the sun don't shine. After taxes took most of the money away, I would pay my debts and give some to my family and live off the interest of the rest if there was any left over.

I have some pretty good analyst skills when it comes to the video game market, depending on much money I get for the lottery if big enough I'm sure I can get an investment on a company like say, Rockstar games, but I'd rather go after a smaller growing company.

But how many of us actually play the lottery? I mean... I don't. It just doesn't make sense. I could buy a lottery ticket, or I could buy food, and you can't eat lottery tickets.

The way I think of it is this--
If I have enough money that I can afford lottery tickets, then I don't need lottery tickets, because I have enough money, so buying one would be useless.
If I don't have enough money for lottery tickets, then buying one would mean giving up some necessity, which would be stupid.

For me, the value of money drops to zero not long after the point where I have food, shelter, clothing, and medical care for myself and for my cats (well, not clothing for the cats; they'd hate me), and access to a library or the Internet. I guess I could save it for later... but even then, it would make more sense to put the money in a savings account rather than buy a lottery ticket.

I think sometimes that poor people buy lottery tickets because they feel stuck, and they're buying hope. I guess they figure that a one in a million chance of a way out of poverty is better than no chance at all.

There's two kinds of poor... the kind where you have less than other people, and the kind where you don't have enough to live. I've almost always had enough to live, and when I didn't, it wasn't for very long. Maybe I'm okay with having enough to live, even if I have less than most other people, because I don't really have that social focus that makes you feel poor just because you have less than the people around you.

Honestly, I feel rich. I can have food whenever I want it; I bought new clothes last month. I can afford to take care of my cats. My apartment doesn't have roaches or fleas. I get medication when I need it. I even have a computer. This really feels like prosperity to me. But when I look at my income, it's still below the poverty line, and I think to myself--I'm supposed to be poor. Why don't I feel poor?

If I won the lottery I would donate 25% of it to Charity , 25% to things I've always wanted to buy ( not a new house , there's nothing wrong with the one I'm living in now )
And the 50% left I'd spend on a around the world trip for the family!