Are there any unwealthy autistic persons here?

I'm surprised that you think that those who work without benefits are wealthy.

I was working as a legal secretary when I had a traffic accident.

The compensation allowed me to put a deposit on a flat purchase.

However, paying a mortgage and all the associated bills on a single unprofessional salary meant I was poor not wealthy.

Debbie said:

I'm surprised that you think that those who work without benefits are wealthy.

It was clumsily put, for which I apologise. I struggle to identify with the kind of people here who can talk about buying 200 year old homes in Cornwall, fitting new kitchens, able to live well abroad.I don't know whether anyone else here has experienced 'social drift'. Basically a marked decline, due to disability, in occupational/social status compared to  your parents.

I have lived in poverty for many years, poor jobs, struggle, then had some money, then not had it again. I found it hard to cope with money in a different way to hard without it. I prefer the boundary that being skint provides. Less to think about.

I experienced social drift’. I didn’t have a term to describe it before. I come from a middle class family but am unidentifiable as such, yet also am not identifiable as working class. I realise these are crude terms perhaps, yet when you do not seem to belong the class system seems very real and everywhere.

social drift for me feels like not belonging anywhere, having no identity. I am the only person in my family and extended family not to have a professional career, men and women both. Yet I feel like I have worked as hard, harder, to try and prove myself.

I Like having to live on very little. It is just as easy to use as little as possible of everything. It provides a clear boundary for life. I appreciate things more. It works out about the same. A hot bath once a week is as good as a hot bath every day, it provides all the niceness rolled into one instead of divided by seven. I do wash too in case yo are wondering!

The same with food. Eating sometimes is better than eating indiscriminately because you don’t have to consider money. I see nature better when I have less. 

I have lived in poverty for many years, poor jobs, struggle, then had some money, then not had it again. I found it hard to cope with money in a different way to hard without it. I prefer the boundary that being skint provides. Less to think about.

I experienced social drift’. I didn’t have a term to describe it before. I come from a middle class family but am unidentifiable as such, yet also am not identifiable as working class. I realise these are crude terms perhaps, yet when you do not seem to belong the class system seems very real and everywhere.

social drift for me feels like not belonging anywhere, having no identity. I am the only person in my family and extended family not to have a professional career, men and women both. Yet I feel like I have worked as hard, harder, to try and prove myself.

I Like having to live on very little. It is just as easy to use as little as possible of everything. It provides a clear boundary for life. I appreciate things more. It works out about the same. A hot bath once a week is as good as a hot bath every day, it provides all the niceness rolled into one instead of divided by seven. I do wash too in case yo are wondering!

The same with food. Eating sometimes is better than eating indiscriminately because you don’t have to consider money. I see nature better when I have less.