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I always ask this question to organizations, where do you get your funding from?
School-based organisations will always say, the school granted me the money!
Then one of the autism groups I joined said they are funded by another autism group, which has a different strategic direction from us.. Which, to me, kind of a disappointment. (And practically, we need lots of money to push for employment workshops, regular meetings and so on. Our members dislike extremely having meetings in their own homes, showing that they do not really understand the importance of knowing our financial scope and the feasibility of our proposed actions.)
This is kind of a joke... I am doing bread and butter issues for the autism community, and then there is totally zero support whatsoever even by fellow 'comrades'. Then there is this bunch of scholars who, before going off to study in famous universities overseas, pad their resumes further by participating in the government-sponsored autism organisation's 'Youths for Autism'.
It's a joke. I repeat, it's a joke.
They are practically what, shadowing other teachers, and do not bear the same risks as me while I volunteered in a similar special school. You do not get kicked, you do not get messy... whatever.
More being born with developmental disabilities? Less with other sorts of physical disabilities? Seriously, I feel every time it's the same problem. The bottom few have no chance to get out of the hole they are in. Poverty will never be eradicated, unless humanity in commonality has this sudden realization that New Zealand of the 1930's, with its egalitarian ideals, is utopia that we can strive for.
But I thank the principal of that school for allowing me to volunteer and serve for that school.
In that school, I saw the potential and I still believe that the talents of different autistic people can complement each other. This even applies to other people as well.
One case in point, in my mind: in this forum, there is this rocker named 2010Dolby, and I read that Aillas raps in his free time. Maybe we can form some new band that blends hard rock and rap like what Linkin' Park does, and base ourselves in the mountains of Switzerland, the narrow houses in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, or by the glens of Scotland, or just somewhere - to form the most original music in the world that everybody in the world 'feels' resonance and commonality.
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I always ask this question to organizations, where do you get your funding from?
School-based organisations will always say, the school granted me the money!
Then one of the autism groups I joined said they are funded by another autism group, which has a different strategic direction from us.. Which, to me, kind of a disappointment. (And practically, we need lots of money to push for employment workshops, regular meetings and so on. Our members dislike extremely having meetings in their own homes, showing that they do not really understand the importance of knowing our financial scope and the feasibility of our proposed actions.)
This is kind of a joke... I am doing bread and butter issues for the autism community, and then there is totally zero support whatsoever even by fellow 'comrades'. Then there is this bunch of scholars who, before going off to study in famous universities overseas, pad their resumes further by participating in the government-sponsored autism organisation's 'Youths for Autism'.
It's a joke. I repeat, it's a joke.
They are practically what, shadowing other teachers, and do not bear the same risks as me while I volunteered in a similar special school. You do not get kicked, you do not get messy... whatever.
More being born with developmental disabilities? Less with other sorts of physical disabilities? Seriously, I feel every time it's the same problem. The bottom few have no chance to get out of the hole they are in. Poverty will never be eradicated, unless humanity in commonality has this sudden realization that New Zealand of the 1930's, with its egalitarian ideals, is utopia that we can strive for.
But I thank the principal of that school for allowing me to volunteer and serve for that school.
In that school, I saw the potential and I still believe that the talents of different autistic people can complement each other. This even applies to other people as well.
One case in point, in my mind: in this forum, there is this rocker named 2010Dolby, and I read that Aillas raps in his free time. Maybe we can form some new band that blends hard rock and rap like what Linkin' Park does, and base ourselves in the mountains of Switzerland, the narrow houses in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, or by the glens of Scotland, or just somewhere - to form the most original music in the world that everybody in the world 'feels' resonance and commonality.
