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Yes, ugly face and neurotypcial will do worse in life than a male model with aspergers.
But for those of us Aspies who aren't good looking, the statistics are horrifying and really eye opening. 85~90% of high functioning autistic adult males with uni degrees and college diplomas are unemployed, vs the neurotypical unemployment rate of 5.2% and Down Syndrome unemployment rate of 72%. The suicide rate of HFA people is 15x the general population's. Only a minority of HFA people (especially men) will ever even have one relationship and the divorce rate of marriages in which one partner is neurotypical and the other is autistic is 80%. 90% of autistic kids get bullied in school and one study found that 63% of all bullied kids were Aspergers.
Not that you should ever give up (might be hypocritical of me to say this, because I have), but if you're on the autism spectrum it really isn't your fault you're a NEET or inkwheel. Being autistic is the worst curse, the most discriminated against disorder, the worst fate imaginable in the first world (aside from extreme fringe genetic/birth disorders that show up in 1 out of 30'000 people or something). What really hurts on top is how much neurotypical people happily take their normality for granted, never having to struggle with ASD themselves, while also rubbing it in our faces and labelling us freaks.
But for those of us Aspies who aren't good looking, the statistics are horrifying and really eye opening. 85~90% of high functioning autistic adult males with uni degrees and college diplomas are unemployed, vs the neurotypical unemployment rate of 5.2% and Down Syndrome unemployment rate of 72%. The suicide rate of HFA people is 15x the general population's. Only a minority of HFA people (especially men) will ever even have one relationship and the divorce rate of marriages in which one partner is neurotypical and the other is autistic is 80%. 90% of autistic kids get bullied in school and one study found that 63% of all bullied kids were Aspergers.
Not that you should ever give up (might be hypocritical of me to say this, because I have), but if you're on the autism spectrum it really isn't your fault you're a NEET or inkwheel. Being autistic is the worst curse, the most discriminated against disorder, the worst fate imaginable in the first world (aside from extreme fringe genetic/birth disorders that show up in 1 out of 30'000 people or something). What really hurts on top is how much neurotypical people happily take their normality for granted, never having to struggle with ASD themselves, while also rubbing it in our faces and labelling us freaks.