1Million Dollars Vs Lose Your Aspergers.

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Truthfully, being an NT is not what it's cracked up to be sometimes.

I'd rather be a healthy Aspie than a sick NT.

This is a curiosity to me, having been diagnosed Aspie myself, I think it's the NTs who are disabled. Like, they buy into the hive-mind-mentality, are tribalistic, and seem to be so EASILY and COMPLETELY BRAIN-WASHED when it comes to propaganda, but on the other hand, I live in a community of people who are mostly much older than I am, and I'm also in a rural-location, and there's an actual sense of community here, even if I don't bother socialising.

Perhaps Aspies would be better off just moving away from the large cities that are full of those brain-washed NTs & instead live a more quiet life out around the more rural-style country-sides rather than being amongst all of those city slickers who think that they know everything just because they're products of the American "education" (i.e.: indoctrination) system ?

Also, regarding a lot of so-called mental-conditions, much of that has alternate-explanations, but most people will auto-dismiss anything that falls into the para-normal category & instead act as-if though pre-programmed into a more materialistic/mechanistic view-point/world-view/paradigm. I really think that there's more to it than simply meets the brain/nervous-system, considering that science/technologies have already confirmed the existence of a bio-electrical field to human-bodies being similar to how the earth's electro-magnetic field is to the earth, something could simply be going on at the energy-level that causes disruptions to the physical-level. Think about it, were an EMP to be launched into the earth's atmosphere, a LOT of physical-disruptions would occur on earth, and the same thing with how disruptions to your energy-body would have an effect on your physical-body, resulting in manifestations of expression/behaviour that are indicative of something needing further/deeper examination.

Regarding some other alternate-theories/explanations, although they may not seem modern-day or scientific, some of it is well-documented, and uses scientific-instruments, such as a Wimhurst-Device (read the work of Dr. Carl Wickland in his book: 30 Years Among the Dead [should be freely available as a PDF with any quick on-line searches]).

Yes it's important not to run away with the idea that NTs are particularly happy, healthy or marvellous.

The million so I could get a golden ps4 with all the games when they get out, and pay a house for my mother, my sister and me. Also a new, fresh car.

The way I see it, yeah it would be nice to be an NT in some ways, but many NTs still lead sh***y, depressing lives, and most never have the chance to get a million dollars all at once. Why do you think so many people play the lottery?

I'd take the one mil. I found the rite meds for a lot of my comorbids & learning about myself & my issues really helped me be better adjusted. I'm fairly happy the with way I am now.

You are over-estimating the purchasing power of 1 million dollars.

One Million dollars isn't very much. It's only just over half a million pounds, which won't even buy you a house in London. even if the prize was £1,000,000 ($1.6m) you would still have your autism / aspergers. Still be left out, lonely, and if the ther often related medical conditions don't take their toll, then the depression surly will.

I hate this disease. I hate everything about it. Frankly I don't understand people who are claim to be happy with their disability. Given the option, I would choose to be normal, in a heartbeat. To be able to read other people, to understand the world the way it is, rather than the peculiar interpreted vision of the world I have now. To feel, to love to KNOW! to actually "know' what someone is thinking, to understand the meaning behind their words, their actions. To understand peoples true intent. To 'know" rather have to guess. All the time guessing. Having to use every ounce of processing power, running through endless mental lists of faces, emotions, personality types, situations, and linking al these up, calculating the probability of what they mean, every moment of every day. Always having to guess, and never truly knowing. That's what I hate the most.

I hate it!

I hate this disease.

Keep the money. Give me the cure.

I'm in the UK but I'm interpreting the million dollars as a hypothetical million pounds if I were the person being made the offer -- just for fantasy's sake.

So, if it were 1 million in UK money, tax free, there are actually houses in my part of London that are under half a million. I've seen listings in my area for houses as low as £200,000 although admittedly they are the very small, modest ones. But I've definitely felt that if I had the money I wouldn't mind buying one of those in my area. Just the other day I saw a listing for a flat -- okay it's not a house, but it was in a location right next to million pound houses, overlooking the same view of a park I frequent, and this flat is on the market for £166,000. I liked it and thought "I could put up with that flat!" At least it would be mine and not rented like the place I'm in at the moment.

The rest of the money -- if I bought that flat, would be 834,000. If I bought my own place outright with the million, voila, no rent and not even a mortgage -- leaves just the bills I pay anyway (electric, etc). So my living expenses would be lower already anyway. Currently I exist on less than 10,000 a year, including having to pay rent. If I even upped my expectation of what I would spend existing each year to say, 20,000 a year, the 834,000 lump sum alone would last me for the next 41.7 years. I'm 53 now, so that would take me to the age of 94.7!

I really don't even expect to live to 94 -- but if I did, the money left over would have lasted me that long.

Now, true I haven't adjusted for the rate of inflation and cost of living as those 41 years go by. But given that I currently live on much less than 10 thousand a year and I'm being generous in anticipating wanting to spend double that even once there is no rent and mortgage to pay anymore, I think it would just about work out for me.

As for my autism, being able to live in my own property instead of the instability of a month to month rent agreement, and being free of the work I do which causes me physical issues and mental stress, would go a long way to alleviating an awful lot of my stress, and when I'm less stressed my traits are more manageable.

So yep, I'll take that million and get to pursue my true interests and goals in my little house I bought! The remaining inevitable stress and issues I still have because I didn't take the cure instead --- I can live with!

The condition of the masses leaves much to be desired IMHO. I guess they play the lottery for the chance of escaping, which doesn't say much for their existing lives.

Anyone is welcome to. I'm being serious. Anyone is welcome to pm me an email address & I'll share my story and what I've learned and done. I'm open to discussing it with anyone who'd care to discuss it, too. I believe what I've learned and done can help a lot of us.. but I know that you can only help those who are willing to help themselves - ie if treatment isn't your thing for whatever reason, well, I'm not going to try to twist your arm to make you try something. But if you want to, I'll help with info in any way that I can.

- Richard

Sorry you feel that way, but I think there are actually more contributing factors going on that we're not being told, something more than just mere genetics, something more than just mere brain-wiring, something more than just the nervous-system, something more than just the surrounding environment, perhaps even some kind of clandestine-technology that has us tagged (not to make it sound like alien-level technologies controlling & screwing with us through their clandestine nano-technology brain-implants or anything), and I feel a lot of it has to do with the very design of the systems in society themselves... largely being controlled by bankers...

Yes, but what would you do after 20 years? You'd be utterly unemployable.

Also, 50K/year would buy less and less every year. Towards the end it would be similar to living on welfare.

WitchsCat, CashCats? Yeah, of course that's a thing!

Well, if I had million dollars I'd buy nice small house and deposit the rest in the bank while myself working on some low-stress part-time job(s) and dealing with my projects, maybe even one of them succeed once.
If one don't need to pay school debts and mortgage there's often no need in high salary.

So don't live in London. Buy a 1-bedroom house in a reasonably-priced area.

I leave myself out, I'm not only, I'm a genetic god when it comes to health, and I'm not depressed.

So, what problems?

And no pension either. Unless you bought an annuity with some of the cash and then lived overseas until it matured, it'd be a tough call to eke out even a frugal living. The younger you are, the worse the situation is.

But the million would be on top of whatever survival method you already had in place, though if it was means-tested support, you'd lose that if the State knew about your windfall. I suppose that if you got a job, at least you'd not be so afraid to quit, unlike most people. You might then have enough confidence to be assertive at work and to flatly refuse to be treated like dirt. But then your references would suck, and employers would be reluctant to hire you anyway if they knew they couldn't use your poverty to control you.