What would happen to this country is an Aspie was President

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What do you think would happen?

A better system?
A better economy?

or a complete Meltdown?

I can't really tell you, because I'm not American.

You could have an idea. I don't see how not being an American impedes your judgement in how government works.

In any case, I am sure any weird idea of his/her would not pass.

We probably have had at least one.

Its a tough question to answer because being president is a job that tends to depends on leadership ability. If your ignorant of certian topic but a good leader you hire people who know how ot manage things and let them loose (JFK, Reagan, Clinton, Bush). If your not a good leader you try to micromanage everything (Carter, LBJ, Nixon). frankly its a tough call to tell how an aspie might do in the white house. I do think that a good aspie president would be a great example.

Probably nothing because the President doesn't have the power to do anything groundbreaking. Any measure he/she tried to pass would still have to go through a non-aspie congress. Also I don't know if any of us would have the "chutzpah" for lack of a better term, that's required to get things done in politics.

1) Amnesty for parents trying to do the right thing so that they wouldn't have Social Services called in the event that the kids decided to OD on illicit drugs.
2) Term limits (including a one, six year, nonconsecutive term as president. It wouldn't matter how much positive change you could do as president, you still can't run for reelection for another six years.
3) Communications companies (including the anti-Christ called Cablevision here in New York) can't own sports teams, venues or things of that matter.
4) Propaganda promoting open-mindedness
5) Cutting the Defense budget by 50%
6) Tax everyone with a huge income. Sorry, but Reganomics is pure crud.
7) Study how other countries succeed where the United States doesn't.

AMEN to #3. "James Dolan, by order of the president you will step down immediately" <sound of all New Yorkers cheering at once>

More of us would have jobs and careers.

Well, I think up would be down, left would be right, and cats would be sleeping with dogs, because I can't think of anyone with Asperger's who could survive or even seriously consider enduring the campaign process. Even if that were not the case, once President, the duties and obligation would pretty much be fatal.

And I'll give you credit for an interesting question.

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I should hope nothing would happen at all, as if we ever get a President I devoutly wish it'll be by ditching Liz and the gang for an equivalent (but elected) figurehead - heck, ardent Republican that I am, I might still vote for her if she ran, she does a good job - after the civilised model, rather than going for the banana republic style of giving both executive and ceremonial functions to the Supreme Generalissimo.

I agree. Fatality would be certain.


The President is required to socialize more than anyone else in the country. The fate of the nation hangs in how well he can do this with heads of other countries. And every move and every utterance is analyzed by many, many people to see if he screwed it up somehow. It's a social microscope even more remorseless than what celebrities have. It's something few NTs could cope with without imploding and I really don't see how it would be in any way possible without full brain implosion.

Does a cocktail party make you tense? How would you like to go to a cocktail party every single night for the next 4 years and have your behaviour at each nightly cocktail party televised and analysed and even the slightest faux paux will go down in history. Remember Bush throwing up on the Japanese Prime Minister? So does everybody else who was alive then.

I couldn't handle that fishbowl existence and I'm quite ok with cocktail parties.

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Just kidding!

Or am I?

How was the OP hotlinking?

I don't know why I think it would be REALLY GOOD or REALLY BAD...

Calvin Coolidge sounds like he was a bit Aspie: withdrawn, insular, quiet. He's usually ranked as being pretty average by historians. Neither great nor poor.