Autist Corporation?

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So, I was playing about with ideas related to Autistic employment, and it would appear to me that there is a pool of potential talent that isn't being tapped due to social issues. Kind of. Anyway, I was wondering about the prospects for a company that would employ Autists who have skills and interests which are profitable (to use the archetypal example, coding), but lack the social ability to get a job using them. AutistCorp would employ them, and serve as the go-between which allows them to be profitable, by taking care of that which they find difficult (for example, interacting with the customer). We may have to employ NT individuals for this, but that's not a problem as long as they realise that they are only employees - replaceable ones - and the company remains in Autist hands. Perhaps, after going for a while, the company would be able to extend it's operations into housing for Autists in such a way that allows those would otherwise be written off as completely incapable of living independently to contribute to society.

I actually conceived of the idea (for the second time, sort of) when thinking that the hypothetical state of Autistia would have to have a government that would be, shall we say, socialist from a contempory perspective, in order to actually function, and I think it could actually work and benefit the Autist community.

OMG, this is such a clone of something me and my bf I met on here were going to start years ago. Our other friend from here joined, and we even went and lived together in his house for a while, but then I got pregnant and it fell apart and my bf dissolved the corporation. He had 2 sites, autists.org and autisticrights.org. I'd like to join your group if I can.

That's not possible... I don't have a group, just a few vague ideas about how to help Autists.

The idea is, if I had to sum it up in a sentence, for a company that would deal with the aspects of business that Autists typically struggle with, thus enabling them to be employed in productive work. At it's most basic form it would be a registry of Autists with suitable skills, and a group of people (quite probably having a lot of NT's) who would deal with the customer, and probably government, interaction on their behalf.

Thats actually a really good idea. Would you ever consider actually doing it?

In the forseeable future, probably not. I'm throwing ideas out there, hoping to develop them into fully fleshed out concepts. If someone or some group wants to pick up an idea and run with it, they can.

market this idea to someone who has money. or get investors. this is a good idea but it could become corrupt if proffiteering NTs took over and charged ridiculus sums of money and forced autistic people under them into debt. I would say that very high functioning autistics could be hired on an individual basis by autistic people to mediate with bosses, there could be an internet database to meet these agents and find one in your area.

Hi all...

I emailed with the folks from Aspiritech like a month or two ago, asking them how much it would cost to start up something similar to what they're doing. The founder/CEO mentioned a ballpartk figure of $250,000. I gulped, then thought to myself, "Better win the lottery before I try something like this."

Scott/Greater Chattanooga Aspies

That was the name of the company I was thinking of. I'm sort of thinking along those lines.

$250k? Hmmm. I must make money before doing this, or somehow crowdsource the money.

I am confused...what is the business selling? remember...corporations exist to make profits. They aren't in the business of maximum employment. It sounds from the idea you are striving for, that you want to create an employment agency for aspies/autistics. I like the thinking outside the box, but in order for a business model to work you have to sell something the public needs...the market hasn't accounted for.

So lets brainstorm here....what can Autism provide to the community as a whole? I have an idea of possibly using the intellectual/ " Little professor" aspect of aspies to broker with other corporate agencies to provide employment along the lines of a temporary employment agency, and fit Aspies into jobs that best suit them...now lets say we have people who have an obsession with buttons for example...we would get in touch with museums or what not and try to get either an intern/part time job set up under a contract to give the aspie the resume experience and doing something they love.


What are other peoples ideas?

Well, I was thinking the corporation would exist as a middleman for Autists who would otherwise be unemployed due to social issues or the like. Sort of like Aspiretech, in a way. I was thinking, say that there's an Aspie who has a narrow field of interest that is a very niche market, but can't run it as a business because of being unable to deal with customers - the corporation would take care of that side of the business for them, as well as anything else (government meddling/taxation?) that they would struggle with, allowing them to make a living that they would have otherwise been unable to make, and in exchange the corporation would take a slice, maybe 25%, of the profit.

There is a Swiss IT company that does exactly what you are suggesting. Even the company name (Asperger Informatik) reflects their AS-focused employment strategy. Here is the website:
http://www.asperger-informatik.ch/firma ... tsidee.php

The company has also been featured in a news article:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/Aus_scheinb ... d=19753786

Both links are in German, but I'm sure that Google translate can render them comprehensible.

I found an English article about the company: http://www.myhandicap.com/asperger-info ... 2c4fe6dc09

thats pretty cool. i was glad to read the ceo has aspergers.

I don't think corporation is the right word, but we could definitely make some sort of aspie company or alliance to help us get employed.

Well, it *would* be a corporation, in the strict sense of the word...

Meaning?