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http://www.aspiescentral.com/blogs/...holarship-involved-autism-work-boon-bane.html
My articles are always for a niche audience: Singaporeans who care.
It's ok if my previous articles don't garner enough people to read: for those who understand its contexts will feel a little shocked.
My argument is that most people will only volunteer today because they add weight to their CVs and resumes.
So one of my friends read this and assured me that there is a possibility of people being awakened with their experiences working with autistic people. There is also the possibility that people, who have not awakened yet from the slumber of their work with ARC, will feel awakened.
I feel a sense of hope.
But then I am constantly reminded that times are bad for anyone in Singapore.
We live in an era where:
1. Autistic people are already given more than what they need, across different functioning levels, but people, especially high-functioning autistic people, don't know that, and they want more concessions;
2. Actually, all Singaporeans are well supported more than they need, but some people still don't support the government;
3. There is a group of people in Singapore who gets special, preferential treatment in exchange of them not being able to assert their merit in current leadership in our land. Obviously, they vote, in a majority vote, to vote out their incumbent Members ofr Parliament, in the current ruling party.
(This is true for one of the wards in the ward concerned. This is also true for the special needs community in Singapore - if this is indeed true in the wards concerned, Aljunied GRC, I'd say, yes)
(http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/05/toc-breaking-news-aljunied-grc-facebook-site-alleges-defamation/)
(http://www.asiaone.com/News/The+New+Paper/Story/A1Story20090507-139990.html)
(In light of this incident alone, I even tried to rally to stem the tide because I saw this as a one-off thing, but it didn't work out. I sensed that the opposition is too weak to even help our community, which indeed came true. I also live in another constituency, so it didn't help things out, too. So in the upcoming elections, I am passively supporting Dr. Tony Tan for President in Singapore, because he has a past track record of helping the Special Needs community in Singapore, despite past indication that I won't.)
4. In the upcoming days, something more than ego and hurt will descend Singapore. The conventional assumptions Singapore worked under the past 40 years will have to change. In the next decade or so, PM Lee Hsien Loong will have to pass his leadership baton to someone else, who has to steward Singapore to independence. Failing which, we have to accept ourselves as a second-rate state. This is unacceptable for the current 3rd richest country in the world.
5. Since people fail to recognize who are leaders and who are not, I am considering a long travel trip in United Kingdom, and then the United States, for my graduation trip. I want to learn the best examples of Anglophone countries' development, so that I can apply them to wherever they call me their son of the land.
In short, I am at a loss.
I decided to stop volunteering for a while, because I can't continue to volunteer if I do not feel that my work will be recogized as it is.
http://www.aspiescentral.com/blogs/...holarship-involved-autism-work-boon-bane.html
My articles are always for a niche audience: Singaporeans who care.
It's ok if my previous articles don't garner enough people to read: for those who understand its contexts will feel a little shocked.
My argument is that most people will only volunteer today because they add weight to their CVs and resumes.
So one of my friends read this and assured me that there is a possibility of people being awakened with their experiences working with autistic people. There is also the possibility that people, who have not awakened yet from the slumber of their work with ARC, will feel awakened.
I feel a sense of hope.
But then I am constantly reminded that times are bad for anyone in Singapore.
We live in an era where:
1. Autistic people are already given more than what they need, across different functioning levels, but people, especially high-functioning autistic people, don't know that, and they want more concessions;
2. Actually, all Singaporeans are well supported more than they need, but some people still don't support the government;
3. There is a group of people in Singapore who gets special, preferential treatment in exchange of them not being able to assert their merit in current leadership in our land. Obviously, they vote, in a majority vote, to vote out their incumbent Members ofr Parliament, in the current ruling party.
(This is true for one of the wards in the ward concerned. This is also true for the special needs community in Singapore - if this is indeed true in the wards concerned, Aljunied GRC, I'd say, yes)
(http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/05/toc-breaking-news-aljunied-grc-facebook-site-alleges-defamation/)
(http://www.asiaone.com/News/The+New+Paper/Story/A1Story20090507-139990.html)
(In light of this incident alone, I even tried to rally to stem the tide because I saw this as a one-off thing, but it didn't work out. I sensed that the opposition is too weak to even help our community, which indeed came true. I also live in another constituency, so it didn't help things out, too. So in the upcoming elections, I am passively supporting Dr. Tony Tan for President in Singapore, because he has a past track record of helping the Special Needs community in Singapore, despite past indication that I won't.)
4. In the upcoming days, something more than ego and hurt will descend Singapore. The conventional assumptions Singapore worked under the past 40 years will have to change. In the next decade or so, PM Lee Hsien Loong will have to pass his leadership baton to someone else, who has to steward Singapore to independence. Failing which, we have to accept ourselves as a second-rate state. This is unacceptable for the current 3rd richest country in the world.
5. Since people fail to recognize who are leaders and who are not, I am considering a long travel trip in United Kingdom, and then the United States, for my graduation trip. I want to learn the best examples of Anglophone countries' development, so that I can apply them to wherever they call me their son of the land.
In short, I am at a loss.
I decided to stop volunteering for a while, because I can't continue to volunteer if I do not feel that my work will be recogized as it is.
