If Aspies were NTs and NTs were Aspies....

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I feel pretty angry at society for being NT dominated.

I'd imagine if we controlled society, there would be a greater deal of respect towards authority, other people and a greater appreciation of learning and education.

Hmmm, I wonder if it would be considered ethically wrong to try an experiment: get 100-200 autistic parents who have autistic kids between 1-3 or as young as a feasible diagnosis will allow, then get a handful of five or ten families who have two autistic parents and neurotypical children the same age as the autistic kids, then effectively have them grow up in an eclosed society and see how the NT kids turned out, being the minority population. It probably breaks all kinds of laws regarding the morality of human testing, but it would be really fun to see the result from a scientific perspective. (I'm a budding psychologist so this stuff totally fascinates me.)

Well I kind of know what it might be like, because I have a lot of either AS or OCD or dissociative people around me.

Basically, they wonder "why are you upset" and I wonder "why don't they give a crap that I am upset."

They wonder "What are you talking about" and I wonder "Why don't they listen."

A world of mostly everything but NT would be like it is now only more so. At least, from the NT perspective. For those NT who have only been around or associated with other NT especially extrovert NT, it would be a big shock, though.

The lack of empathy alone is a big adjustment. It doesn't always show, but, push comes to shove, the lack of theory of mind means that if they are not bothered, they don't think you are really bothered either...as I understand it. At least that's what I see in my own life. I can be extremely upset, say so, explain why, and...nothing. Nothing.

(Or worse, I get accused of 'acting.' An AS/OCD relative once accused me of horrible things because I got him the wrong cassette holder for Christmas. Accused me of wanting to ruin his Christmas, of doing it on purpose, when I said I had the receipt upstairs and would return it for him the next week but please let's enjoy the rest of the holiday, he wouldn't believe me; I had to go get the receipt and show him; still screamed at me until I was in tears. On Christmas Day. Then, I got accused of 'acting' - it was abusive and bewildering. But in his mind, all that really was true. The reality, for me, and in fact that means the reality was, because that's what happened...was that I had gotten what I thought was a good gift, what I thought was the one he wanted, and which was perfectly good and fit his cassettes and looked like his other ones. His complaint centered around the item not looking like his other cassette holders; it had to be exactly the same. In no way had I planned anything evil by choosing that one. It was the best most expensive one the shop had and to me looked just like the ones in his room. Anyway that stands out to this day as an example of 'what is the difference between empathy and lack of it, of emotions and lack of them.' I did return the gift the next Monday and only then did his anger seem to lessen. At no point did it occur to him that maybe he had hurt my feelings, or that giving a gift is not an evil act. At no point did it occur to him to return it himself. And my gift from him was...a used CD he didn't want any more. Lol)

TBH, I think it would be a lot like the movie "The invention of lying" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058017/ where the NTs figure out that all the aspies take everything literally and that they can lie to everyone and no one have any idea. Considering it'd be the norm to not make eye contact and take everything that is said literally.