In some Dutch municipalities they let unemployed people work in social employment. After two years the subsidy expired and they gave me a non-existent diagnosis. In 2006 I discovered by chance that I am severely autistic.
Severely autistic people have a photographic memory and a visual thinking process and enjoy collecting information. In the course of my life I have collected information on many subjects. Particularly on suicidal behaviour in children and teenagers. The social employment service appeared to have quite a few problems and so I started investigating them.
In 2011 I became a victim of budget cuts.
I had no other interesting subjects at hand. So in 2012 I started investigating the social causes of the problems of the social employment service. One of the most important problems turned out to be that they started to cut back within a few years of being established.
So I wondered what the cause of losses is and that turned out to be very simple, for a severely autistic person. Neurotypicals appear to be unable to think about problems they have no information about:
The entrepreneur closes his accounts and discovers that the expenses are greater than the income. That is the only information he has. He appears to have too little money to pay salaries. But he has no information about why that is, or how he can solve it.
For an autistic person with a visual thinking process it appears to be possible to investigate what the cause is. Just as the shape of a hole in a wall provides information about what may have passed through it, so the shape of the hole in the information stream provides information about what information is missing.
In 2013 I wondered whether there are more problems that are not solvable for neurotypicals but are solvable for autistics. Obesity turned out to be one of them.