Unconditional aside, I have a somewhat different point of view coming back to this after initially disagreeing with this point. First of all, nothing is truly free. I get it. Labor and resources cost money and time.

Unlike autistic youth, late diagnosed and often traumatized adults, at least ages 35 and up, have a very different life experience. They have a gaping hole of permanently lost socioeconomic development, as I’ll be demonstrating next month in my article, “Arrested Development.” They, and I, cannot hope to recover to integrate by normal expectations. After age 40, if it isn’t already impossible, it becomes increasingly difficult to integrate.

Employment gaps. Race. Country of residence. Mental health. Supportive/unsupportive parents. And I’m sure more than what I can observe on my limited capabilities right now in the thick of it.

I’m 43, by the way.
I was diagnosed in 2019 just before I turned 38.

I faced neglect ever since Junior high. Most recently after requesting accommodations I was forcibly discharged in February 2024. All four were new. One was based on advocacy through case management that my provider did do for another “younger” autistic client. This was 2022/23.

I’ve been unemployed since June 2016 because I’m stricken with an indecision issue related to family trauma and monotropism. Yet, I can work. But the indecision gets in the way.

So…

If accommodations are frowned upon as no one should do anything to help me integrate, opinion or fact, I’ll tell you simply that eventually, others like me will simply no longer have the ability to hold on. We’re regarded as too late as I’ve often seen. We’re thought of as lazy as I’ve been told personally.

We are human beings. So I’m left to ask this question..

Should we be left to die? Victim to an uncaring world who already benefits greatly from pain relievers that were once a privilege. Or, should we be saved?

Because I still want to live. I’m not asking for a penthouse suite. Just a life. Not ignorance of the issues I legitimately struggle with.