AS/NT Hatred
And the eternal optimist says--We're going to make this happen, no matter what it takes! Now that's talking. That kind of an attitude is capable of moving mountains, or convincing the universe to help. And it is highly contagious.
The universe blesses those who have faith in themselves. These are the people who are successful and thriving. When they have an ambition or project, they put effort and organizational skill into it. They throw themselves into it---body, mind and spirit. Plus having done this over and over again, they have plenty of experience. The universe cooperates and gives them what they want. Actually it is very difficult for anyone, or the universe, to stop such people. That's what I mean by an eternal optimist. They create a way where no way existed before. Yay for them.
The aspie community will not come into existence without one of them at the helm. And it would come into existence that much faster with an NT eternal optimist at the helm.
What you describe is not an optimist. An optimist believes in the impossible. A realist, however, believes in themselves and their ability to alter reality to a reasonable degree. A realist can accomplish their dreams because their dreams can happen.
And an autistic community must be made with an autistic mind. It cannot be led by a NT, or else the goal of it, to bring belief in autistic individual success to the world. If you ever get a change, read Black Like Me and pay special attention to John Howard Griffin's notes at the end. He mentioned the fact that the black community realized that they had to lead themselves for anyone to take them seriously. The same must be true of the autistic community. We cannot have NTs lead us, or else it merely proves that we cannot lead ourselves.
Then we find what works. We are not going to be able to start an autistic community in the next few years, so we have that time to plan.
For example, for any city or town to work, it must not only import goods from other towns and cities, but it also must have something that other cities would want, or some other way to obtain external revenue (Reno, for example, thrives on tourism). I would imagine that we might have art, writing, and computer programs as our primary exports. What is something else that tends to draw the autistic mind?
Edit: Actually, as we're already off-topic, it might be best not to answer that in this thread.
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MrLoony,
You seem like a bright fellow with good ideas. However I beg to differ. First however, the point about being off-topic. This thread is about AS/NT hatred. Many of the contributors here have implied there needs to be an alternative to hatred. The aspie/autie community is one such alternative. A solution, albeit not a very feasible one to most at WP. To my way of thinking, perfectly on topic. My thinking may be flawed however, and if so, I would stand corrected. I'm not all that skilled at staying on-topic.
To continue, briefly..
Wouldn't it be nice if there were something that enabled a bridge to be built between NTs and Aspies? Perhaps a cooperative venture? It doesn't appear practical we can all work together, but there are some Aspies and some NTs who work very well together. If a realistic, optimistic NT wanted to help us and was willing to listen to our requests and requirements and proceed according to our recommendations, what's the prob? It IS possible. Though perhaps not likely.
Well, if anyone wants to discuss an Aspie 'Nation' further, I've created a forum called... Aspie Nation.
You seem like a bright fellow with good ideas. However I beg to differ. First however, the point about being off-topic. This thread is about AS/NT hatred. Many of the contributors here have implied there needs to be an alternative to hatred. The aspie/autie community is one such alternative. A solution, albeit not a very feasible one to most at WP. To my way of thinking, perfectly on topic. My thinking may be flawed however, and if so, I would stand corrected. I'm not all that skilled at staying on-topic.
To continue, briefly..
Wouldn't it be nice if there were something that enabled a bridge to be built between NTs and Aspies? Perhaps a cooperative venture? It doesn't appear practical we can all work together, but there are some Aspies and some NTs who work very well together. If a realistic, optimistic NT wanted to help us and was willing to listen to our requests and requirements and proceed according to our recommendations, what's the prob? It IS possible. Though perhaps not likely.
I can think of two reasons off the top of my head why this wouldn't work:
1. If NTs and autistics built the community together, autistics may still be in the minority.
2. Even if we were in the majority, the idea would be that NTs would be making the decisions and keeping the project going. That is assuming that they would not be trying to take charge.
That isn't to say that NTs would not be allowed into the community. However, the community would have to be built by autistics without NT management, or else the entire point of the community would be lost.
I do have difficulty staying on-topic as well. This discussion is a little off-topic because it's meant to point out that it's not just NTs that are hateful. The idea of this thread is that the attitudes of both groups need to be changed before a true neurodiverse world is possible. An autistic community would have to have the this as one of its goals, but it belongs in its own topic, perhaps even its own discussion area.
Back on topic:
Interestingly enough, I've met a couple of aspies who are self-hating, you could say. They've been told for so long that the way they are is wrong that they begin to believe it themselves. I've even seen this attitude here. Of course, as soon as I typed that, I remembered Black Like Me and how John Howard Griffin talked about how some in the black community thought that lighter-skinned blacks were somehow better than the darker-skinned amongst them. No, it's not the same, but there are certain parallels that can be drawn.
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From a technical point of veiw it seems to be describing someone with aspergers. Although from a usage point of veiw in my experience people with aspergers are more likely to write such vitriol about "Neurotypicals".
So i'd have to guess it was stated by an aspie and aimed at an NT.