Autism is a spectrum

Autism is a spectrum.

Some of us with autism may be high-functioning and engage in quantum physics, while many more just bang their heads or go missing while their parents don't watch.

Indeed, this is the reason why many autism groups experience internal quarrels and conflicts. Some High Functioning ones are frustrated being associated with the lower-functioning autistic people, because they are the ones that seem to pull the High-Functioning ones back. Those high-functioning people do have various ways to assert their importance in society. They either form their own group away from NTs and lower-functioning Auties, as far as I know from real cases, or they refuse to acknowledge that they have autism, and even go a step further and say, 'I want to be cured totally from autism.'

Isn't autism a complete package, with some bugs that render us vulnerable to social vulnerabilities due to a lack of social skills, but with some other functions that make us useful in society?

I believe, with the access to useful technology like tablet PCs and computers, one can be more able to interact with other people, and reveal their thoughts, just like any other people.

The not-so-good thing about this is, dependence on such technologies could be counter-productive in certain situations where they are not allowed. Hence, meltdowns and other forms of frustrations still occur.

Labour and Specialisation - Our Way Out?

The world seems to need division of labour and specialisation, though they are incomplete, without a basic core of values to guide them along, in order to survive.

DPM Tharman commented on a speech that in Singapore and in many industrialized countries, a general degree is ''less highly prized and those that deal with technical skills (delivering high-end services or working with sophisticated machines) would have "more jobs"'. 

He refered to Europe and America's shortage of people in technical skills and oversupply of people with general degrees, who are either unemployed or end up in jobs that don't require a degree. He pointed out that the aim is not to max the no. Of uni grads - this strategy "has not worked yes well". 

This at least makes much more sense than saying not all competent ite grads can go on to polytechnics (Lawrence Wong). Well, isn't our main point in Singapore to maximise opportunities in our citizens, so that we can be our best?
 

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