Are autistics materialistic?

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Yup...very materialistic. watches, technology, cars....etc...I just like stuff. Think it relieves the boredom (or at least I think it does). I can't imagine being happy sitting in the house watching TV. Seems so pointless. When I look at my room, it's full of tech. I look in the car park and I think "wtf?"

It's scary when I think about it..have a storage space as well which is just as bad

Love tech and stuff....sadly I'm in debt up to my eyeballs.

not being in debt is prolly a better long-term feeling than having lotsa nice stuff.

Agreed. We have no credit cards, no loans (apart from our mortgage) and always live within my pay cheque. We have a small overdraft limit in case of emergencies that very rarely gets used (we're talking years between use). We don't even go out to pubs, so we save a fortune that way. We eat out maybe once or twice a year as I've found that I can cook better than a lot of restaurants. We don't get takeaways and eat freshly cooked rather than convenience meals. We are lucky that our car is a free Motability car so we don't have that to pay for - I just have to pay for petrol. I have a £27 Timex watch We did the whole debt thing years back and it was hell!

It's really nice not having to worry.

I am at least somewhat materialistic, and my cherished possessions really matter to me. It impacts me a lot if they are broken (I hardly ever lose anything).
Even besides the truly cherished possessions, I like having stuff (games, books, DVDs, knickknack).

I'm sure I was materialistic about toys. But now I just care about my computer and phone.

obviously, at least a few WPers here don't seem to have too much trouble completing advanced degrees at uni then negotiating the job market without difficulty. is it that IT professionals above a certain level are so in demand by industry/business that they [the powers that be] cut aspie applicants some slack, or is it that certain very smart aspies perform largely as NTs in terms of being able to act normal, without too much trouble? I guess there is no substitute for brute-force IQ to power one's way through life.

I don't have a degree (I just never got around to it) but do work in IT and have done for many years (various jobs including developer, QA, IC design, installation, support, web-dev and am now a software tester). A fair few of my jobs I've gotten through contacts rather than the usual interview process. However, I am pretty good at "being normal" during interviews although it's utterly exhausting. I've only just received my diagnosis this January but I've told my current boss and he's fine with it and my colleagues are getting pretty good at being precise when specifying tasks. I have found that compared to any other industry that I've worked in, IT has more than its share of "unusual" people so cutting people a little slack is par-for-the-course

It depends on the autistic person lol

I would say that I like my little luxuries--like a computer, TV, comfortable bed, heat, running water, flushable toilet, etc.

I don't find myself to be particularly materialistic, though.

I always thought of my self as not being materialistic.
Last year our house and pretty much all of our possessions we had were destroyed when two gumtrees crashed through our roof in a freak ten minute storm, they took the whole house out.

I couldn't have cared less because we were all in there at the time, yet all made it out with only a couple of scratches.

I hope you had insurance.

Otherwise, I would feel quite stress---because of the cost of putting the house back together.

Unfortunately no insurance.
We were renting so wasn't our house and owner happened to be uncontactable overseas on holiday.

Good thing that came out of it was that I'd pretty much given up on the outside world thinking there was no nice people out there, yet when this happened to us complete strangers stepped up with so much help and household goods.

It was incredible and gave me a lot of renewed hope in people.

This sounds exactly like me although I do own a smartphone ( I buy broken ones and fix them , I wouldn't pay £300 upwards for a freaking phone ).

If you can fix phones, why are you so down?

You have a very useful skill---which I don't have.

I don't even own a regular computer. I have a three-year-old Chromebook and a Kindle Paperwhite, which I love. Even my turntable is nearly 50 years old! Excluding my home cinema stuff, that's as far as I go with gadgets.

50 years ago, a "turntable" was known as a "record player." LOL.

I believe "turntable" originated with hip-hop, actually.

Yes, I know. Please don't assume I'm either young or an idiot and please don't "laugh out loud" at me as it's not particularly nice.