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This might qualify for philosophical discussion, but it concerns Aspies and autistic people. But I was wondering: What would happen if a "society" completely made of AS and autistic people was formed? Of course, we would all have our specific talents and be really good at those things, thus such a society or community could excel--in fact, could we have higher living standards and better technology to benefit from such talents? But on the flip side, we'd have to deal with the poor communication, or not feeling and responding like normal society does. But since an AS teacher doesn't have a problem teaching AS or autistic students, that might not be a problem.

Thoughts?

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I don't think the poor communication, the problems with reading body language and so on would be a problem in such a society, because we would all know that the people we were dealing with were on the continuum somewhere, so we'd either dismiss such behaviour, thinking, "Oh, well, that's because...", or we'd feel able to say something. It would be nice to live somewhere like that, rather than here, where I sometimes feel I've been given the rule book to read but half the pages are missing...

What I have noticed is a circle of concensus forms here. there are sides, but so many it beomes a circle.

It does seem to lead to accomadation and a view everyone agrees on.

As far as not feeling and responding like a normal society, we would not go to war. I would still exploit others, they would have no idea what we were doing, but they do need work. I sell on the web, I love NTs.

Within the land of AS, we reach a local normal fairly quickly. I am working with several people from this forum now. We get along, understand each other, and are productive. We are combining skills.

I am working on a town. A place where were could gather in the flesh, but the web works. There are economic reasons for both. We understand and support each other. I never had that in the real world.

Some skills travel well. Others take a machine shop, art department, factory, and people need secure homes. It does not have to be much, but a home that can be owned in a town that is your town. Labor does have to be paid, and if planned well, labor would own a town, food production, factories, nothing huge, smart and flexible.

I publish. Printing is basic to any culture. I meet writers and painters who do not know how it works. It is part of their work. Publishing and prints produce income. There are other marketable skills. It might take some of the best working long to produce something that will sell, but all can share in the production.

I think it would be a productive and caring culture. I have to work, it is my nature, we need others to fill the coffee shops and parks. Aspies are lifetime students. I would plant a grove of trees for those who would come teach, provide them with food and shelter, the other minds of their time, in return for spreading knowledge to the people.

Not all wish to master a skill, but most would like to learn about it. I think we would be mutually educating. We would also need a mountain with caves. I do favor keeping the world, they are good customers, but I also favor us living as we would. I find a group nature to the people here, the kind I would want in my village.

We could be several rich and educated villages. Each would develop specialities, and there would be trade and travel. The Amish have a working world, but I find it limited. I do think care for your land, grow your own food. I am also interested in small personal vehicles powered by fuel cell.

Keep the best of the old and gather the best of the new. A hundred Aspies looking at a new technology, would improve it in a short time. Ten person factories can make the best of something, and get the world market. Between the web and CNC tooling, we only need a base.

Some of us are old, survived a hostile world. Others are young and have been told they have limits. Maybe so, but maybe not forever. They would grow best where people like them are setting an example. They would grow best in a village of people like them.

We cannot change, there will be no cure, there are 2,000,000 in the US. We are large enough to become our own customer and marketing base. Wrong Planet is only three. A lot has gathered in ways that would not have been predicted. It is growing rapidly.

A hundred people in a village, large enough to self support, educate, and grow. Like anything, the first time is figuring out how it works. We would have many minds with us. Once we have a model, new villages.
It does not take a lot to support a hundred people.

I am looking into New Mexico and adobe. Housing can get very cheap. Even better is paprecrete, recycled paper, dirt, cement. It is light, with high insulation value. There is good cropland, with water, near the rails and Interstate, but far from people. The price is good, land comes in large tracts.

With a low overhead, and driven Aspies, we will soon become rich.

We need retirement homes, summer camps for the young, better education, skip the social and get on to job skills. Being on the main east=west route, I-10, Amtrak, travelers stoping for a day or more can visit and fund.

We will never know what an Aspie World would be like till we build it.

I'm trying to bring people together in a community, as well. I first thought that parents would have a good place to come together and create a safe, life affirming place where their kids could thrive and the parents could grow old, happy in the knowlege that there is a place where their kids belong and make the most of their lives.

But then I started hearing from adult aspies, independent from their parents and needing this kind of community desperately.

Most people are so passive about trying to find a better way. Some of that may be because of anxiety issues. I used to get paralyzed with anxiety whenever I start anticipating too much, for instance. Then I just wanted to hide somewhere. Some passivity may be because it's so hard to be on the spectrum that a lot of people give up for awhile or lack confidence to hope for something better enougn to try.

watching the amazing race 6, i prefer the NTs and rebecca to adam d'aspie