Age or lack of it. Plus before I set down on such a path I want to be fully prepared.
Age isn't stopping Alex. If anyone is going to compete with him, they can't wait.
Once he gets enough exposure all the skeletons he has in his cupboard will pop out - if he gets anywhere too high then it will be his own demise. He is not Mandelson; far from it. Its easier to wait for him to fall.
I get enough people asking for my own advice on various things already.
Not here online, you don't. Even if your persuasive skills are somehow much better in person than online (I don't know, but I could buy it), surely it makes more sense to change your technique once you're in an environment where it's no longer working.
The last thing I want now is a big group of followers, it is not my time. Once you become liable for a group of people it takes a serious amount of effort to deal with them. Remember about power needing to be maintained - I certainly don't want any before its time if I can help it.
Subtlely pointing them in the right direction, a quiet word in the ear to look up a few well chosen things and then come back and ask for more. The internet has an obvious flaw in that its in general an awful lot harder to persuade people of things than in person. Plus to actually achieve anything meaningful, we need a physical offline movement, so its easier to build it offline (using the internet perhaps as a media tool).
Well, good luck finding enough aspies congregated in one area to make it work. How many have you found at your college? How well are they organized?
One problem, although I know who they are mostly - approaching most of them is difficult without publically giving up the pretence that I am an NT. Though I have had conversations with a few of them about other stuff, some seem shall we say less than happy.
Though the easiest way would be to exploit the offline networks that exist quite a bit already, namely the NAS in the UK which has an annual budget of £70m just so you get an idea of its size.
This is meaningless. Your abrasive and alienating demeanor has nothing to do with Tibet.
The cultural genocide argument does.
Well, sorry to say, but I'm not going to call what's happening to autistics a cultural genocide, and no amount of repeating the argument will change that.
But this is part of how you go wrong - thinking that if you just keep saying the same thing, you'll eventually be listened to, long after people have written you off and you're wasting your breath on idiots who like to poke buttons just for the trolling thrill. You've got to make more attempt to meet people on their own ground.
Call it what you like for now, you might want to change your mind in a few years.
Though the repeating strategy is the best one in politics, the reason for example US senators have had a 96% reelection rate is because they get their name repeated everywhere in the media for their term. Thats pretty much all they do.
