Were any of you born into a wealthy or powerful family?

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@ fifasy
Were you?

Thanks for asking.

I was born into a family of modest wealth. I grew up eating fries and rice most the time, couldn't even afford to eat much meat. My mother though is descended from a Jewish family that going way back would have been the people running the synagogues.

Neither, my parents both came from lower middle-class families.

My mother's side: Poor, Jewish, Russian. My mother was the first to graduate college and get her master's.

My father's side: Some were powerful in their community in the 19th century. Great uncle was a semi-famous jazz-ragtime composer. Never met any of these people. My father himself is a businessman.

I was born in a lower middle class family.

not really, but picked on because of the cultural revolution anyway,
where this thread goes doesn"t leave space for ... as usual, oh well!

Wealthy family here. It's one reason why I dont work, and as a rule, I can do whatever I happen to feel like at the time. Including buy stuff. I dont really have any practical spending limit. To a point; I always say, I'm not going around buying helicopters or some insane thing like that. Within the realm of relatively SANE purchases, I just buy whatever without it denting my funds (leads to me being an impulse buyer though). Or even go travelling to some convention. And this house is, well, big, and there's a second house too, because why not. I dont go there much though.

BUT, it wasnt always this way. It's my father and stepmother that I live with, my mother lives in a pretty normal place. And way back when, after my parents divorced, my father just had a small apartment for a good while. But things slowly picked up over time, and at some point, my current situation just sorta abruptly happened.

As for the "powerful" idea, hm, my father is good at getting things done, but it's not like he's some high ranking government official or something. Works in the food industry. Travels ALOT. So does my stepmother.


Aside from that though, I'll go with the "autism doesnt discriminate" idea. As someone already mentioned, diagnosis is easier to come by if you have more money, but autism itself could come to anyone.

I think people make too big a deal out of wealth or whatever. Well, to a point. I do know the frustration of being generally broke, from way back when. That can be hard to deal with, indeed.

I was born into an upper middle class family (father is a diplomat). Not powerful or wealthy in any way.

Lower middle class here. I feel like for how common it is, I don't get enough exposure to people in the same wage range, making me feel poorer than I am. That or most people don't admit it.

My family is middle-class but first generation middle-class. I might not be able to maintain my membership of this class because of my poor employment history. I do have the education and accent you'd expect from a bona-fide member of that tribe but not the income.

If we were to define social class by income, I would be firmly lower class/working class etc.

My parents were lower middle class level when I was growing up, so I do not consider that powerful nor wealthy. I had to work hard for what I have. We do have some very rich relatives within our family tree. However, we very rarely have contact with them except at funerals/weddings. One of my cousins (and her family) flies 1st class round trip to England each year to watch all of the Wimbledon tennis matches in one of the most expensive sections.

As a child I remember thinking my grandparents on my moms side were 'rich', turns out they were/are middle class. So I suppose that means I grew up below middle class and that is still where I remain. As for further back in my family who knows...maybe there are some wealthy and powerful ancestors though those don't do me any good this day and age.

Powerful? No Wealthy? Yes. My great grampa was a multi millionaire and was a classic rags to riches, self made millionaire guy. I wish I would've had a chance to meet him. But he dies 3 months after I was born. But some of his wealth did filter down the family and I ended up with a nice lump sum when my mother died. I wouldn't say I am wealthy, but I am well off. My house and car are both paid off, and I am able to live without working a 9 to 5 job. but I still have to be very careful about what I spend money on though.

For s**ts and giggles. ..

Aspie MIL...wealthy, social connected family
My husband (her son...family a little less wealthy, more socially and connected politically.

Money buys you options and buffers. MILs money shielded her from having to work in the work place, and she marry well.

My husband lived in an affluent community. The school system was miserable, but he managed to get into independent studies all through high school. It was almost like home schooling.

It doesn't mean they didn't suffer. My MIL had 4 kids by the age of 25, and was on meltdown/shutdown mode the first 10 years of marriage.

My husband was considred a little weird, not ret*d.

In HoodLandville, where I grew up, my husband would have been tossed into sped, and MIL had CPS called on her. There is very little tolerance for weird where I grew up.

I think Autism is skewed towards the white upper middle class because they can pay for first rate screening. (in America). In Hood Landville, no one had expendable cash to see the big deal specialist. It was sped or the court system.

My MIL benign neglected her kids the first 10 years of their lives. She just didn't know about children, people looked over her issues because she had money, and a famous husband. Her husband was semi abusive and she had no close friends.

Money buys you options. I think Autism is really under reported in the lower socioeconomic income levels. No money, no one cares about the poors.

Well for my own personal account I grew up in a working/middle class family in that, there was no silver spoon for my older brother/sister/myself. Honestly I could care less about such crap but, I'm aware that having additional moneys does tend to grant a greater access to certain resources which could be helpful to an autistic person but, money alone does not solve one's difficulties.

I suppose I was born into a "powerful" family in terms of career success. Just about everyone in my family works a high paying job and are in higher positions -- nurses, doctors, engineers, business men/women, mathematicians, computer scientists. This brings problems for me though because they all have good social and people skills so they expect me to automatically become as great as they are. I am struggling, but I am also trying.