Well, there's an open niche..

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There are so few doctors who deal with adults on the spectrum. If I were interested in dealing with other people, I'd finish school and open a practice.

I've been calling around for weeks trying to find a doctor close to me who deals with adults with AS and anxiety. Hopefully, one of the last two practices I called, call back with good news.

The rest of the doctors are so far away, and since I can't drive far, I'm hoping I find someone closer. Switching doctors isn't pleasant, but neither is trying to find a ride to a doctor over 3 hours away.

I think there's a niche in providing housing for spectrum people with separate private accomodations (maybe little cabins, or just apartments) with free wifi and meals left on the doorstep once a day, and a staff who will make phone calls and drive the residents to appointments, but otherwise leave the autistics strictly alone to pursue their special interests. I even thought of a good name for such a set-up...an "autists' colony" (like an artists' colony.)

Sounds suspiciously close - both sound suszpiciously close - to what we have been long term alternately looking for / talking aboutr sett9ing up if we could just sort out how to make it fly.

Actually, arielhawksquill, what you are describing is VERY like the set up in the Carthusian Order = Charterhouse. Each brother an individual apartment with garden, living quarters, work space, supplies delivered by support staff through a port in the wall.

Makes you wonder who was drawn to the order.

I like the idea about the cabins or apartments.