What will aspies do when the economy collapses?

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I don't have any skills. Nobody ever, ever complimented a thing about me growing up, they rather worry about money problems all the time. Why does a child honestly try hard when nobody cares about what they accomplish? Now things are worse. I'll commit suicide long before begging. I already live off my parents and have struggled for years now. People out there are discriminate.

As for begging, that absolutly will not be done by me. I wasn't raised like that. Not that I hate beggers, but to be one is the ultimate self-inflict in my mind.

My special interest lately has been survivalism and what I and many others see as the inevitable collapse of the economic, social, and political structures of the USA and possibly beyond. I have been planning for this for a while. I learned how to repair computers so I wouldn't have an income dependent on government welfare. I tried starting a business, only to end up bankrupt when it didn't fly. I am currently figuring out how to advertise my computer repair services for maximum impact.

But most aspies/auties don't have any skills they can get money/food for, most live on welfare and usually with relatives, most are obsessed with VERY narrow interests that are useless to society, etc. What will they do when everything comes crashing down? Die? Aspies can't live on the streets; we lack "street smarts" and are likely to end up dead before acquiring them. I'm looking to buy a patch of land where I can grow/raise my own food, and of course it would have no mortgage so I wouldn't have to worry about the banks, just the taxes.

But most of us have no options and no way of getting options. If our families lose their homes, they will likely dump us, like families did to kids in the 30s, and we'll end up as wanderers. This time around, people will be so crazed with hunger that they'll be more willing to eat us than accommodate us. (Zeno, you have a thread, so stay out of mine, ok? Thanks.) What will YOU do when society collapses?

I'm not a militant survivalist in the traditional American sense either. I tend to follow Fernando Aguirre, who has written about how people coped with the collapse of Argentina in 2001-02. He advocates adapting to the new environment, rather than trying to escape it and build bulwarks against it, as is usually the advice from American survivalists. He starts out with an obvious observation: most people will not be able to leave the cities. He furthermore says that living in a remote area is NOT a good idea, as you tend to be vulnerable to bandits and other disasters. In his view, the cities don't go away, they just get really crime infested and dangerous. The American view has traditionally been to buy remote land and hoard food. Of course, what happens when your food runs out? What happens when you're overwhelmed by bandits? He suggests that it's best to carry a knife for close quarters fighting, such as being grabbed and assaulted. Guns are usually for home defense, although he does carry a gun sometimes as well.