Help Trying to Find "If AS Was The Majority" Stori

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I'm trying to find thought exercises/stories on if the majority of the population were on the Autistic Spectrum to use in a presentation for a college class (the class is entirely Neurotypicals, except for me). I want a way of showing them what many of us on the Spectrum go through and how we see the world.

If you know of any, please post a link or the story (or what-ever-you-want-to-call-it) or the story itself here.

Thanks!

I haven't seen it discussed or fictionalized off Wrong Planet but it gets discussed a lot here. Maybe you can stictch something together from the various threads that try to figure out "what if...?". I tried to find my personal favorite to link here but couldn't. It was one that anbuend participated in. I have participated in several too. In one I speculated that the NT minority would turn to dogs for emotional validation. There are tons of what-if scenarios here but they are scattered in those threads.

You might also investigate "Disability as a Social Construct"

I'm looking for some story that was posted here maybe like 4 years ago - it was one from the perspective of a man living in an AS only world, whose son was born neurotypical, does anyone remember anything like that? It was a story in which he introduces his son in such a way, in which in our world an NT would write about his aspie son - that's he's not like us but he does have some additional advantages over the normal which compensate this. I remember there was something like that his NT son was perfect at sports and his aspie dad wrote taht it was like God gave him this gift as a compensation for his difference, that the father was looking at him with admiration when he was throwing balls and the like - he himself wasn't able to do this. I rememeber that 2ukenkerl took this story literally and said taht his son doesn't seem aspie at all, that nothing about this story indicated AS and had to be informed that it was the reversal of the vision of the world we live it. Does anyone recall anything like that? I can't find it.

I haven't seen that story, but I wrote a short story awhile back with the same basic premise (except it was a mother and daughter). I could try to dig that up for you.

I also wrote a blog entry If Autistic Was Neurotypical that you may find helpful.