Asperger Syndrome Self Employment Charity

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Hey
One thing I have noticed among the many Charities for people with ASD there are around the world.
Most the charities do very little to help people with ASD who do not have learning difficulties
with employment apart from perhaps referring people with ASD to employment agencies that at the most
will employ people with ASD in therapeutic work by other charities.

This, I believe in some circumstances is actually a form of discrimination, as the people who run such charities
often are getting paid nice fat salaries so that they can baby sit people with ASD in under employed roles,
while paying them a min wage, so that the person with ASD can then feel like they are normal as they have a job.

In some circumstances, the person with ASD has a higher IQs than their wealthy supervisors and in some cases, more capable, but because they have ASD they never get considered.

I am also aware that there are quiet a few people with ASD who are "high functioning" or who do not have an intellectual disability who have very valuable skills in areas that are valued, which could be used by the ASD individual to create self employment, if they only had some help to start up and maintain their business.

I wonder some times if starting up a charity, which can receive donations would be worth doing,
so that the money could be used to employ people who could help people with ASD start business,
including giving them either grants or loans to help people with proven skill in a proven area of demand
to self start a business and become self employed.

Please feel free to debate this idea... thanks