How would NTs function?

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NTs wouldn't stick out like sore thumbs. They'd naturally have the skills required to fit in far better than in comparison to aspies now. They would be able to hide their differences if they wanted to, as they'd naturally adopt appropriate aspie behaviours as they grew up. That's what being a social animal is.
For those who doubt this, we live with this example constantly, as every single culture in existence nurtures some behaviour and shuns other behaviours depending on the situation. NT's aren't loud and boisterous all the time, no, they are when the see that it is allowed. We're taught not to talk in school, we're taught to listen to elders, we're taught to obey authority...all this is learned behaviour that NT's pick up naturally, and any sort of regular aspie behaviour would work the exact same way. We'd just have a bunch of NTs who crave more randomness and noise and social interaction than they'd get on a regular basis, but who wouldn't do anything about it except in their spare time where they'd seek out other NTs and then they'd party. Just like NT's do now, act appropriately at work and other social situations, and become themselves in their spare time.
Of course what's appropriate would change a lot, society itself would change a lot. And NTs would fit right in.
Only if an NT were to go against the grain, which itself would probably not even be seen as a negative thing unless it'd disrupt the regular order of things, only then would they be pathologized. Of course they'd be abnormal no matter what, but they wouldn't be clearly disabled.

Hey, wait a minute! We are NOT going to treat our NT brethren that way. No reverse discrimination here. That's loathsome and immoral.

What we need to do is to make certain they get proper services in elementary school and offer programs for them as adults. We need to make certain that they feel accepted in our society. We shall not treat our NT brethren with misunderstanding and isolation!

Being inattentive to details might be an issue for NTs in this world. They'd probably be seen as stupid for that.

There would be Aspies in their most lower functioning neighborhoods. But they would be under guard as they would be prisoners put there as punishment for bad behavior like people put in isolation here.

Haha this is too funny!

Because they lack sensitivity to noises, touch, movements, etc., they wouldn't realize that they come across as loud and overbearing. They don't mean to be rude, but need to learn proper social skills to not dominate the sound waves or invade other people's personal space.

In the world described, I imagine NTs would be just as we are. My counselor is always telling me that you're permitted to behave in less conventional ways if you contribute more to the people around you. Abilities posessed by NTs such as easily reading body language would prove very useful just as we have unusual talents that certain groups have demand for. If the NT markets the talent(s) they have that are in limited supply well, they'd be permitted a certain level of deviation from the social norm just as some of us are.

I wish I could remember the book or author, or that I had the room to unpack all my books and look through them to find it.

Someone wrote a sci-fi novel which was in part about an entire planet of people with neurological disorders and no neurotypicals, apparently as a result of the method and route used to travel there by the original colonists.
They wore color & pattern coded clothing to let others know what their issues were as both identification and warning.
It was an interesting read on the concept.

It seems like a society composed mostly of aspies couldn't evolve naturally.
Our civilizations evolved because humans were innately social creatures, able to live and work together in large groups.
Aspies just aren't like that, so any society composed of mostly aspies would seem likely to be highly artificial and thus unstable and unsustainable in the long run.

It's nice to think about though...