Aspies For Freedom

I've been wondering if anyone here would be interested in pooling ou resources to buy / maintain / etc a permanent aspie retreat where people can go when they are down and out of the market and not have to worry about bills, etc, etc.

I was thinking about this today looking at my credit cards and the money I have in my bank account, if we pooled a huge chunk of our credit and portion of our money from our accounts into
a single account and let it accumumate interest for say 30 days (as an example)

We could make interest faster by "snowballing" (stuffing/focusing as much money as possible in a short amount of time) and then letting it sit there and earn interst and then returning the original amount of money and then using the interest to fund a 'retreat' or some similar project.

I keep of thinking of something like Xavier's school from the live action X-men movies.

Now I know this is basic but bear with me... on my little ING account I get %3.5 / yearly  so 0.035 / 12 = 0.002916...

I could easily say 11,000 into an account (1 person)
now :

1 person * 11,000 * (0.002916) =
$29 bucks / monthly

Now that is a pitiful amount but... hence the concept of "snowballing" (or rushing large amounts of money into an account, holding it, and getting more money gained on small amounts of interest faster),

Now in the below, each person represents stuffs 11K into a singular account.

@ 50 people x $29.16 = $1,458  / month in interest
@ 200 x $29.16 = $5832 / month interest
@ 1000 x $29.16 =$29,000 / interest.

as you can guess the more people you could get to cram as much money in there as possible as fast as possibel the more $$ you can make in only allowing it a short interest period, we compress "time" by upping the amount.

If we could get the help of others we could probably start some pretty cool projects, but it would take people overcoming the idea and irrational animal feelings / prejudice / aversion to such an idea.

The only thing lacking is willpower really, and a legal framework (accountability) just to assure the paranoid / irrational / fearful types.  Although I would hope not to find such on an aspie board, but aspies are not totally immune from their feral evolutionary heritage.

Actually I was thinking today that what is needed is something like a Neurodiversity Foundation charitable organization, but I guess even those would cost a lot to get started and registered.

/grin, Anyone have rich relatives?

Just set up a paypal account and ask people for money and when you have enough buy a place.  That seems to the best way of doing it.  to me.

This is not a new idea.  My little brother suggested a economic alliance between three or four of us confirmed, probable, or possible Aspies (or at least, geeks) (one has since recently been formally identified).  

He called it the Geek House.

Back in 1997, there were four of us.  He was the supreme leader professionally and economically (he was a computer programmer 16.5 years now, long before I was a wanna be).  Myself and my recently-identified fellow Aspie were stuck in the light industrial temp job world (he with a B.S. in computer science and me with a M.A. in sociology).  There was a woman with a B.A. in English with high honors (I think she was telemarketing) and she dated my brother.  The mother of all ironies, my brother had between one and two semesters equivalent of college, yet was the best paid and experienced.  

Fast forward 10 years.

1.  My fellow Aspie left temp jobs for a job as a night watchman.   Things that make you go hmmm.  I gave him my old computer in 2003 and I gave him a monitor for it last Sunday, maybe my brother and I can install Windows 95 on the obsolete box (no USB ports)!

2.  My brother got 9.5 more years of experience in his field, but was temporarily incapacitated six months for emotional suffering from community isolation.

3.  After six months of unsuccessful short-term employment as a Census Bureau GS-7, the state of Maryland offered to send me to their Baltimore rehab facility to learn one semester equivalent of computer programming, on campus, with even a small weekly stipend for soap and shampoo.  

4.  The woman got married.  If she still is, and what she is doing, including motherhood or not, who knows?

Morale of the story.... if you have a teenage hobby in something marketable, KEEP AT IT (my brother was a computer programmer since age 10 and also an electrician, took things apart, made a flashlight tag designator, shine a light at it, a photoelectric switch makes a battery turn on an LED, a one-bit computer, almost small enough for the cat to wear).  

Morale of the story 2.  When you do get your job don't let community alienation or romantic nonexistence hurt you so bad that you eventually go from super employee to incapacitated employee to ex-employee.  Mental health treatment exists for a reason.  If you're in emotional pain use it.

Sometimes I Feel Like I See Eye to Eye With Prof. X From The X-Men or Maybe Wolverine or Jean Gray. The X-Men Tale is Much Like That of Your Average Aspie. I Would Definitley Consider Being Aspergian to Not be A Mutant But to be A Gift or SuperPower. Its Like SuperIntelligence But You Also Have Others Who Ca'nt Ever Understand us.... So That's Where an Idea Like Your's Comes in.
I Agree With This Plan And I Think it Could Work if it Could Raise Some Awarness. Perhaps Asking on Other Aspie Sites, and Perhaps Starting Some Sort of Public Paypal or Something Accepting Donations. They're Would be A Treasurer. And I Get to be Prof. X.