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Higher Education for Mentally Handicapped?

Posted by Cliff on from the searching-for-other-options dept.

Anonymous Coward asks: "I am an autistic high-schooler, who is currently in special education. I am very bright, but I lack the ability to do even very basic math. I am interested in Technology and Computers very much, but after looking at the requirements for a computer science major, there is no way I can do all that. What options, other than college, are available for a good education?"

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  1. Strange by JumperCable · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It doesn't seem as if many slashdoters are paying attention to your question for some reason.

  2. Re:Get a book. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thank you. The fewer people that might compete with me for any given job, the better. Kinda sad that you can't stick with anything for 4 years, though.

  3. Hey, this is America, anything is possible. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Did you think about a job in public service?

    You are far more equipped for many jobs in public service than the people already filling them.

    Like, Attorney General. You could win an election against a corpse, right?

    Or, Secretary of State. You haven't lied to the entire planet yet, have you?

    Or, perhaps, Secretary of Education. You didn't call school teachers terrorists?

    Then, there is the USDA. You never poisoned anyone's food, did you?

    How about SEC Chair. You didn't allow your buddies to cash out and crash the stock market recently?

    Then there is National Security Advisor. You didn't sit back and allow terrorists to kill thousands of your fellow citizens, did you?

    There's always a job in the EPA. I'm sure you can absolutely nothing as good as anyone over there.

    Did you think about becoming President. You never offended the planet, turned the biggest outpouring of international sympathy into animosity? Did you ever have your stupid fat brother try to fix an election? Or commission your friends at a voting machine company to do the same? How about execute 150 people? Did you ever get so drunk that you drove straight into someone's bushes? Did you sit around idly when your nation was under attack? Did you ever go AWOL from a comfie position your Daddie got you to keep your ass out of actual combat? Did you start a war, based on a lie, and then not even have the time to go one stinkin funeral for a soldier your policy killed? Even though you had plenty of time to use taxpayer dollars to go see a NASCAR race?

    See, there are plenty of jobs available! You are infinetly more qualified than any of these boobs!

    But, seriously. Why, again did you want a job in IT? The only jobs left are deskside support, because its too expensive to fly in a $2.50 a day New Delhi tech every time the executive secretary has a paperjam.