aziraphale
5th April 2010, 16:19
Yes, I am autistic. No, I am not MR and I am very mild but I am proudly neurodivergent. I am an anti-capitalist who hasn't found a socio-economic system that he can believe in yet. I have determined that both capitalism and fascism are wrong but I'm not sure which system would provide the best alternative. I am starting to vaguely lean towards anarchism but I can go anyway right now. I was born into privilege but I never thought that was right because people shouldn't be given luxuries by virtue of birth. I don't think that's morally acceptable. Still, I believed that there was no alternative because of the stories of Soviet Russia that my father told me. At the tiem I thought that was what anti-capitalism was but now I know that there are alternatives and that Soviet Russia was state capitalism, not communism. The greatest shock that pushed me out of capitalism was what happened when my autism got in the way of a charter school's money. I was problematic for a variety of reasons and the result was they were spending more money on me than they were getting from the state to have me. They made a deliberate effort to expel me for a crime they KNEW I didn't do. I was not expelled but they did manage to send me to a school for behavioral problems for a year and drain my family's money to the point that we are all still struggling today. After that I realized that the monetary system breeds corruption and I can't accept this. So, this is my post and I apologize if I wrote too much.