i have a tugboat. 🚢 How can I not end up like you know who?

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Freshly Baked Socks said:
Consider contacting an adult services non-profit in your locale, as they may already have a bunch of things for you to do.

The cognitive and physically disabled near me are able to spend all day in an art studio, and I often walk by to watch the crips and tards making art. I bought my coffee mug there and a planter for the aloe in my windowsill.

Good luck, and I hope you find something enjoyable to do.
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I'm into DIY electronics.
 
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Malodorous Merkin said:
You sound like a schitzo.

Your brain is very broken.
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The most annoying thing about autists and why they should be in cages or enslaved if they are the rare autists with actually useful skills is their complete inability to understand that their complete inability to understand other humans is actually a huge defect and they need to rectify it or get the Aktion-T4 treatment.
 
Sentient Computer said:
the idiom "contribute to society" makes no sense to me. it assumes a monolithic "society" exists and that anything you do for pay automatically contributes to it.... unless "society" here means social norms, literally trying your hardest to navigate confusing subplots while sending the image to those who may look to you as a role model.

do fast food employees contribute to society? they struggle for their jobs as it is, plus you gotta add the socially confusing norms and behaviors, including controlling your mannerisms and fighting your own nervous system, which might come second nature to many but are a labor in its own right, but how does said labor contribute to society? and how does their product, no matter how delicious, contribute anything other than a convenient, low-quality nutritional ration with a ton of side effects? trust me.
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Huh? You're being deliberately obtuse. Taxes, and providing a service or product that is desired. Also, being employed means you suck less from the government teat (i.e., "society"/the rest of us).

Sentient Computer said:
i'd actually be a burden on society by being forced or pressured into situations where unattainable behavior is to be expected. i'd be a burden on those i can't fulfill the expectations of. i'd be a burden, aesthetic affront, and wild card to the company, the customers, the corporate culture, the line, etc. it's easier rearrange a circuit schematic into something that goes on a breadboard than it is to maintain conversations with strangers, practice eye contact, all while doing other tasks that require a certain judgement that autism literally means I don't have. it's like expecting someone with auditory processing disorder to just listen harder, or someone with severe joint dysfunction limiting how far they can safely walk to at least try to walk a mile a day to not look lazy.
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Lot of self-loathing here. That aside, you can write well enough and have a decent enough vocabulary, so you clearly have the capacity to contribute something. You're good at electronics? What about a repair shop? I had a guy come replace a component in my frig a few months ago. He could not make eye contact and had no real soft skills, but when I asked some questions (as I do) about the inner workings of the frig, he went on for at least 20 minutes. And the guy in the back room of my vacuum repair place never raises his head or mans the register - he just tinkers and fixes things.
 
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