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22 Oct 2011, 7:39 pm

Nope, I'd completely hate it. I hate living with others period, ASD or not. A person with Aspergers would just annoy me in a different way compared to an "NT."



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06 Apr 2013, 1:30 am

1000Knives wrote:
Nope, I'd completely hate it. I hate living with others period, ASD or not. A person with Aspergers would just annoy me in a different way compared to an "NT."


I'm pretty much the same. It wouldn't matter who it was or how they behaved, there would certainly be some tension.



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06 Apr 2013, 1:32 am

eric76 wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
Nope, I'd completely hate it. I hate living with others period, ASD or not. A person with Aspergers would just annoy me in a different way compared to an "NT."


I'm pretty much the same. It wouldn't matter who it was or how they behaved, there would certainly be some tension.


Yes, they would have to be similar to me in ways other than sharing a diagnosis.

Also, I'm not sure we could all handle that much executive dysfunction in one community. :lol:



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06 Apr 2013, 11:25 am

eric76 wrote:

I'm pretty much the same. It wouldn't matter who it was or how they behaved, there would certainly be some tension.


There is tension in every interepersonal relationship/dyad. Do the benefits (community intereaction, events, someone to drive on errands, someone to visit if you're sick, reduced common costs, etc.) outweigh the costs?

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Yes, they would have to be similar to me in ways other than sharing a diagnosis.

Also, I'm not sure we could all handle that much executive dysfunction in one community.


Tyri0n, we'll found an Aspie apartment complex and we'll have the "politics and administration" floor. :D

Executive dysfunction is an issue, but I think it's one that can be managed. Plenty of apartment complexes deal with residents with some form of Executive dysfunction.


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24 Jul 2013, 1:06 pm

I thought you'd turn up somewhere in this thread, Agent Palpatine.

As far as a physical community goes, a cohousing project might be the easiest to set up. I'd have it as a set of studio apartments that share common areas - that way, everyone gets their own space but can still go forth and socialise if they want to. It definitely needs fibre optic, or even better, it's own microwave station for internet access, simply because you're going to have a lot of people relying on it.

Build it with commercial space on the ground floor, and businesses can later be run out of it.

The question is, are there 5-10 people with the will and the means to do it?



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24 Jul 2013, 1:29 pm

Magneto wrote:
I thought you'd turn up somewhere in this thread, Agent Palpatine.

As far as a physical community goes, a cohousing project might be the easiest to set up. I'd have it as a set of studio apartments that share common areas - that way, everyone gets their own space but can still go forth and socialise if they want to. It definitely needs fibre optic, or even better, it's own microwave station for internet access, simply because you're going to have a lot of people relying on it.

Build it with commercial space on the ground floor, and businesses can later be run out of it.

The question is, are there 5-10 people with the will and the means to do it?


It would be a good prediction.

I'm not sure about the UK, but the more probable locations for an offline community in the US should have sufficient internet access that a dedicated system would not be required.

I would think the businesses would be there at about the same time, if not beforehand. It is much easier to build a community with existing revenue streams than to build revenue streams around a community.


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24 Jul 2013, 2:37 pm

it is a concept that already widely exists in the UK,it is called supported living.
the companies tend to have exclusive access to buildings but each flat is , so for examples sake; a building with a number of flats that have their own bathrooms/kitchens,and the amount of support given is based on the individuals care plan rather than the building or company.

if tequila or anyone else is still interested,just send a PM and will pass on the names of a number of supported living companies/orgs who are ASD friendly,am either a past or present service user of their residential home side so can rate them well.


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24 Jul 2013, 5:28 pm

That's not exactly what we were talking about... the idea is more of a cohousing project created and run by it's (Autistic) members, than any kind of supported living. That's not to say that individual members won't have people to check in on them every so often, but those people wouldn't be part of the cohousing organisation, which would consist of the people who actually live there.



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24 Jul 2013, 7:39 pm

Magneto wrote:
KingdomOfRats wrote:
it is a concept that already widely exists in the UK,it is called supported living.
the companies tend to have exclusive access to buildings but each flat is , so for examples sake; a building with a number of flats that have their own bathrooms/kitchens,and the amount of support given is based on the individuals care plan rather than the building or company.

if tequila or anyone else is still interested,just send a PM and will pass on the names of a number of supported living companies/orgs who are ASD friendly,am either a past or present service user of their residential home side so can rate them well.

That's not exactly what we were talking about... the idea is more of a cohousing project created and run by it's (Autistic) members, than any kind of supported living. That's not to say that individual members won't have people to check in on them every so often, but those people wouldn't be part of the cohousing organisation, which would consist of the people who actually live there.


You could make support staff a fundamental part of an autism co-housing project if you wanted to, and still have the co-housing owned and run by the autistic members -- the autistic members would have final say over who was hired and each person could take or leave the support if they wanted based on their individual needs.


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