This is the most important election of my life because I'm autistic

Post Reply New Topic

god help us.

While trump getting in was certainly a shocker, He most certainly doesn't have any kind of mandate to implement his agenda. Hilary won the popular vote and the democrats gained two seats in the all important senate. The house GOP will bring forth some pretty awful things, but they will all get stuck in the senate unless there's bi-partisan support which is highly unlikely.

As far as I see it, it'll be another two years of congressional gridlock.

and thank GOD for that!

As far as autism policy it is probably best if he just stays the hell away.

I must say 1st that I really appreciate this website and your work on it. BUT, your comment about, "this is the most important election of your life", is nonsense! You're playing the victim card and I cant stand it in anyone! Not just Aspies but race, sex, ANYONE! I'm not a fan of Trump at all but he NEVER said anything about not having a plan for autistic people. Nor did he say or imply he was going to deport us all to Mexico for God sake. No president has ever had a plan for autistic people. Trump has grown up in the age of the 1950's when that behavior and language was normal. There were no PC police yet. I grew up about a decade after him and I used to use the word ret*d all the time. It was the 70's. Now we know better and its changing. But people, his and my age, can't be reprogrammed. I even catch myself using the word "ret*d" now and again & I have Aspergers. It doesn't mean I'm a hateful person. Please stop playing the victim, or stop seeing yourself as a victim. He said & did a stupid thing because he is a child of the 50's/ 60's and he reverted back to his immature youth(and his immature adult hood). He made a dumb mistake. He apologized. Let it go.

^^^^ I would suggest that if you don't like some poster's opinions, that you cease reading that poster, and stop trying to censor him. thank you for your consideration.
p.s. - referring to others with the aforementioned r-word epithet is commonly taken as hateful by the recipient, no matter what you think.

He won't.

I have to say that all this heavy duty fear mongering all over the place isn't going to help anyone. When it was being done to keep Trump from the presidency, that was one thing. Now it's just spreading fear. I think some people aren't going to have to worry much longer because they're going to start having fatal stokes and heart attacks over this campaign of fear being generated. It's getting out of control. And it's all based on worse case scenario predictions.

Last edited by EzraS on 10 Nov 2016, 11:51 am, edited 1 time in total.

Let me tell you something: Trump is going to have to deal with the press in a very different manner than he dealt with it during the campaign. He can't just revoke press privileges as President.

We're talking about basic 1st Amendment issues here.

Ezra, the best case scenario is still pretty grim.

Overall I just wish Trump had a plan to help with autism and the disabled like enhancing services that help with employment and healthcare (like getting diagnosed as an adult) which I need help with because I'm unable to get and keep a job and can't afford to get an official diagnosis that's required to get access to current services that help with that circumstance and I can't find any assistance either that'll help to afford a diagnosis

Agreed. I have a feeling most of what he said on the campaign trail was bluster. His spokespeople are already backing away from Trump's assertion that he's going to put Hillary in jail, and he's still many days from taking office. While I'm sympathetic to the fears people of various groups are expressing, I don't think he's going to be able to live up to many of his more sensational positions once the reality of governing a country and having to work with the system sets in.

Only time will tell, but this is a the same guy who seems to have conveniently forgotten that the system was purportedly rigged...

he will bankrupt millions of pofolk by taking away their healthcare [repealing PPACA] and preventing them from obtaining affordable replacements. catastrophic health costs are the leading cause of bankruptcy in this nation. he will make it worse.

ACA is not going anywhere soon despite trumps promise to repeal it on the first day. Dumping 20 million people off insurance rolls at the snap of a finger without any replacement will crash the ENTIRE healthcare industry and then the you'll probably have a mass uprising in the streets.

I think honestly trump did all this thinking he'd never win... and crazy enough, he didn't, but thanks to an archaic election system where popular vote is not the lowest common denominator, trump gets in.

Well now he's having to come to terms with the fact that he's gonna have to do something, and I seriously think he doesn't want his final legacy being that he did something that led to the destruction of this country.

we have FEMA camps and surplus realigned [mothballed] military bases that are available for mass imprisonment of the surplus workers/unemployed, it is not unthinkable that they may use them.

They can't do that Auntblabby; law abiding citizens enjoy certain rights under the Constitution and surely no US president would dare to ignore the Constitution upon which your nation was built...