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If you came into a lot of money, how would you invest it to help the autistic community?

Jamie

Someone mentioned on here not long ago for there to be an emergency chat thingy for those of us who aren't comfortable speaking on the phone when in need. That seems like a good idea to me as calling someone when i needed help would be the last thing i'd do. 

I'd also look into starting a business that utilizes the skills and abilities of autistic people, a bit like Unicus which is a software company that only employs autistic people:

https://www.unicus.com/om-oss/

Another thing would be to help more on the education side with perhaps paid speakers to share their personal stories of living with autism 

What would you do? 

Parents

  • If I had a lot of money and it had to be spent specifically on autism services? I'd probably set up a private members club for autistic people. Something half way between a working mens club and a student union. A venue to host every kind of niche special interest activity you can imagine. Want to watch and fan boy over anime, do cosplay? Fine we'll book you a night. Massively into LARP and dungeons and dragons, here's a room we'll put out adverts for you. You want to do TED style talks on weird science or odd ancient history, we can make it happen. Can't get a date? We run a club night and members get discounts at the bar and their guests get free entry. Have you heard about our e sports / video gaming nights? The harry potter fans have a notice board over there and have a regular weekend lunch.

  • in reply to Peter

    I looked at how in the 19th century and in previous decades with hospitals and schools, many Catholic religious orders of priests and nuns provided many very well run places without a Penny of state support, spotlessly clean and well maintained to very high standards, in the days when state support for anything simply did not exist and this was especially true back home in Ireland 

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  • in reply to Peter

    I looked at how in the 19th century and in previous decades with hospitals and schools, many Catholic religious orders of priests and nuns provided many very well run places without a Penny of state support, spotlessly clean and well maintained to very high standards, in the days when state support for anything simply did not exist and this was especially true back home in Ireland 

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