Arabs are Semites, not Caucasians.
As for her, give her a book deal and pay her for the pictures of the octuplets. What other means has she to support them? Far better that she should earn that money by selling her story than that she should be on the dole. Lifelong parasites? Yeah right. Autistic kids can support themselves in an economy based on information. They will have issues, yes, but they can pull through. The biggest problem autistic people have is that people aren’t willing to accommodate them socially. In a lot of cases, they’re naive, but quite capable mentally, so they can work as writers, office employees, or engineers if people will accept them as such. People tolerate discrimination against autistic people in ways they would not against those confined to wheelchairs. I say this as a Second Year Junior in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Michigan on a Naval ROTC scholarship with Asperger’s Syndrome.
As for some of these expenses, I don’t know where people come up with some of this stuff: college? She’s not paying for college for these kids. They’ll either get scholarships, loans, work their way through, or they won’t go to college. Car insurance for teen drivers? If they drive, those kids are going to pay for their own car insurance and other car bills. Clothes? This will be a real cost, but not as high as people estimate due to hand-me-downs from the older siblings. Toys? Even more subject to hand-me-downs than clothes.
