Are Buddhist temples just a dumping ground for societal outcasts like the autistic and mentally ill?

[WhenTheyCry]

Society recognizes the dead weight of their outcasts who can't fit into the industry, so they push them into becoming monks. They tell them they can't reproduce so their bad genetics can't spread, and tell them to give up worldly possessions to minimize the costs of maintaining them. It would be inhumane (to the general public) to just euthanize all of their mentally disabled people, so they glorify them by sending them into temples to become these holy monks.

So as an outcast, should I become a monk too?

 

[sserafim]

I heard that temples require a lot of social interaction though. They are basically a small society, just cut off from the world. You will have to socialize everyday there, and it's inescapable. It's not a place for autists in my opinion. I'm better suited to being a NEET

 

[Pluto]

 

[Meteora]

Society recognizes the dead weight of their outcasts who can't fit into the industry, so they push them into becoming monks.

I ve never heard of that.... I think everyone is free to do so? What do you mean exactely?

 

[Red Moon]

Nope, I'm autistic and not sociable, I would just get burned out with places like that. I was thinking of going monk but I doubt those places are for me.

 

[thenamingofcats]

I wanted to be a nun for a long time. I'm a huge atheist so it didn't work out but yeah I think religious life often serves the purpose you're describing.

 

[thepiecessatup]

I have stayed in strict Buddhist monasteries and it is very full on. Even when you're in silence. I felt quite pressured and like I was suffocating. Maybe I would have got used to it.