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> Sadly, you're wrong. In an older world where most labour was done manually, even severly autistic people could be given simple manual jobs and could provide if not a lot so at least some kind of contribution to the farm's economy.

The older world also couldn't afford to give an autistic three full time caretakers.

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Of course not. As I said, the middle-class-for-all scenario is only recently technologically possible, so if my stepson were born elsewhere-or-when, things would be very different.

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