Autistic Roommates.

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With my SSDI claim starting to come together, this is something I have been thinking about for a while. What do other people here think about the idea of trying to get a group of ASD people together as roommates to rent a large house or something?

It seems to me that it could be a good affordable living arrangement for autistic people. Plus the benefit of having other people around who you can actually understand. ASD friendly house rules. Example loud parties would be out. Quiet social activities in.

It would probably have to be only for people on disability. Because 1. everybody would have to have a steady income, to be able to keep the bills paid and 2. the rental would probably have to be in an economically depressed area to be as affordable as possible. Living costs are too high around good employment centers where you can find jobs easily.

So good idea? Bad idea? Would you be interested in living with other ASD people?

have lived with autistic people entire life; dad and sister [both aspies] up till nineteen and from then on; living in a intelectual disability institution and residential care with other severe and profound autistics.
am now living in a new purpose built large one level care home for females who have; severe or profound autism with intelectual disability and MH issues,still waiting for the others to move in.

personaly prefer living with people with down syndrome [or DS with autism] than purely autism as find them much more compatible and easier to get on with.

They like things done their way, I like things done my way, we both don't like change so none of us can agree to live together.

I don't want to live with anyone at all to be honest. I just want to be alone, with some pets.

I find living around other people very trying in general, and I have all sorts of bad habits others would likely find objectionable.
Moreover, I don't imagine that other adult autistics aren't as demanding and full off bad habits as I am in terms of their living environments, so I think that in general unless the people involved had really compatible issues it'd be a very difficult thing to successfully arrange.

Personally, I'd much rather live in a tiny place alone than in a bigger place with anyone I'm not completely 100% comfortable around, and there really aren't too many of those in the world so far that I've seen.
It's really inconvienient that things are that way, and it makes it difficult to some large extent for me because housing costs are very often cheaper in shared spaces, but I really, really hate living with other people, and for the most part everyone I've ever lived with has felt the same about me.

That question betrays some really bizarre assumptions.

Autistic people can clash really hard. For example one person might have stims or other behaviors that sets off the other's sensitivities. Or they could have incompatible personalities. Or one might be messy and the other might be neat.

not interested in ANY room mates, every one I have attempted resulted in disaster ranging from awful fights to abuse and even rape and the theft of my stuff. Better just to be homeless if you have no other choice (I did choose that in the case of the last room mate)

I finally decided that I would never live with anyone else unless in a permanent relationship