Are aspies the only truly free people?

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This thought occurred to me while I was reading a right wing rant about martial law in the US. I wonder, do NTs hate us because we are the only truly free people in the country? Think about it. We don't have friends, and most of us don't have families. In totalitarian states, children are used to spy/inform on parents. Most of us don't have kids. We don't have friends who can spy on us either. We don't have to worry about feeding and caring for children (see below about jobs).

We don't have jobs (wage slavery, indentured servitude), and while some of us get govt welfare, we're more inventive than NTs and likely could figure out ways to survive without it. NTs are utterly dependent on other people (corporate bosses) to employ and pay them (they are paid in debt, not equity, which is why they are in perpetual debt, like sharecroppers of old), and when their jobs are yanked out from under them they are utterly clueless as to what to do next.

Many of us can't drive cars or fly on airplanes because of panic attacks, meltdowns, and/or dyspraxia/inability to control a car. So we usually stay home. One of the goals of the totalitarian state is to ban all travel and force people to stay home. This drives NTs crazy, but aspies have no problem with it, in fact being home all the time enables us to indulge our special interests.

We could do fine without the internet, but for an average NT, if you take away his ability to watch twerking on Youtube AND force him to stay home, he'll go bat s**t crazy within a short time.

Most of us are not materialistic like NTs. We need, and use, very little resources. The global elite want to greatly restrict use of resources. This involves a drastic cut in America's standard of living. Most aspies wouldn't care, since we use very little anyway. Deprive an NT of the ability to spend, and he'll get mad. Aspies simply don't care.

We're free only insofar as we do not allow our ASDs to define us. Once that is accomplished, the rest is gravy.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...

You're making a lot of generalisations there.

"We don't have jobs"

- Many of us do.

"We could do fine without the Internet"

- Visiting WP and other forums is an important part of my routine. Posting on forums helps me to escape from things that stress me out in real life, so you are wrong there.

"We don't have friends"

- Really? Not a single Aspie has friends?

You have made some valid points, but you cannot generalise about such a large group of people.

We're totally and exclusively free? How subjective.

Too much categorization. It's called the autism spectrum for a reason.

I think we are free from the herd. We do not generally get swept up in mainstream beliefs and fads, so we are free to define ourselves uniquely.

I think of myself as free from materialist desires because I hate the idea of owning things and whenever I have owned to much in the past I got overloaded. I have never allowed an employer to even think they have control over my life.

I agree with Kuribo, too many generalisations here. I have family and friends, I would like children very much, I can drive, I have held several jobs in the past and am currently searching for another. I would be very bored without the Internet as well.

As for being free... we aren't the only free people but I would say we are freer than your average person who seems to feel that they have to go with the latest fashions and be social etc, it's nice to just do whatever you want and screw what anyone-else thinks