GREEDY FRIEND DON’T LISTEN TO ADVISE AND ENDS UP BANKRUPT

I have a friend (A), he has been diagnosed with high functioning autism. He is a genius.

When posed with a situation, he is able to assess the situation, think of all possible outcomes and assign probabilities to all the possible outcomes and thus choose the course of action that benefits him the most. As a result, while all of us are still hustling in our career, he’s semi retired, living an extremely comfortable life with millions in the bank. Acc to “A”, he chose to retire because “people are stupid and he doesn’t wanna deal with them.”

We usually go to him for advice and so far, all these years, all his advice has been solid.

Recently, another friend (B) wanted to venture into an investment, “A” advised against it, “B” went ahead anyway. The investment blew up and “B” is facing bankruptcy from creditors. “B” went to “A” for advice and was ignored. “A” eventually agreed on the condition that “B” follows every instruction from “A” without question. “B” decided to not take “A” up on his offer and “A” just shuts up and left. “A” tends to do that when he has said enough.

We all tried talking to “A”. All “A” had to say was…. “Let him die, since he didn’t and doesn’t want to listen.” The thing is… this is the first time one of us went against his advice and it seems a little heartless. It is normal to feel uneasy? Coz no one but him was able to identify the flaw in the investment but him and “A” is punishing “B”

Here are what netizens think:

• I am a high functioning autistic person. I think we tend to focus on ourselves and not impose our will on others unless they are very close to us. I think you should not judge yr friend a this way, Help you is out of good will. Don’t help you is not being heartless, Anyway he did offer help but b did not want then what else do U expect a to do?

• I think you feel uneasy with how A draws boundaries, but there’s nothing wrong with that. You and your friends are doing B’s work for him in sorting out B’s issue.

• I don’t find A heartless. It doesn’t matter what talents he possess, no one is obligated to help B/you when the advice has already been ignored. The sense of entitlement is very strong here. A don’t owe anyone anything.