Wouldn't it be cool if Aspies went and formed an Aspie city?

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Yeah I think that could be really usefull or also living in a flatshare together with other autistics, but NOT an entire city that's really like ghetto.

I'd like to visit such a city, but it would be a lot tougher to decide if I want to move there.

If there's a deliberate effort to exclude NTs, I'm not going to like living there, because I have NT family and friends. But if NTs are welcome but AS are the majority, it could be a really neat place.

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I'd refer to (LINK) An (Urban) AS Community? for a more in depth discussion of something that may be more along the lines of the OP.

And what would be so wrong about an Aspie community? Just to name two issues, it would be a location where our verbal and non-verbal communication style is respected, and where you would have reduced (or non-existent) transportation and time costs to have offline communication with other Aspies.

+1

Same here.

That would be insane. -> breakdowns, meltdowns and shutdowns abroad. What would the laws be? That which suit aspie is perfectly acceptable? Aspie Town is going way extreme!! I could keep going but it wont.

Anyone agree?

they have in Silicon Valley California . There's also a lot of aspergoids in the dutch equivalent to silicon valley.

Explain.

I find I get less overloaded by the actions of other autistics than NTs. They're less likely to demand constant interaction, and more likely to enjoy doing quiet activities like watching a ribbon fall (as opposed to the common NT child game of running in circles and shrieking at each other).

In a crowd, the noise level tends to be regulated by the tolerance level of the crowd - overloaded people tend to leave or stop talking. So if you raise the average noise sensitivity of the crowd, they will generally get quieter.

As for laws, mostly they'd be the same as anywhere else. Laws are mostly determined by the moral values of the society, and AS people are pretty much normal in terms of moral reasoning, so I see no reason for major differences. A few things might be tweaked, such as having different requirements for fire alarms (making them less overloading but still difficult to tune out).

Stimming in public would not be considered strange. A newcomer (AS or NT) might find this distracting, but you'd get used to it fast. (I know I stop noticing stimming when I'm with autistic kids.)

the city would have a military 1000 + years advanced than the neurotypicals and the elites ... the illuminati... we would destory them.... but not destroy the earth

so that would be a good idea