Autism planned community

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Would you relocate to live in a community designed by and for people on the spectrum? I'm thinking small like a co-op primarily for people who are self-supporting. Chronic loneliness is something many of us suffer from our entire lives, it would be nice if we didn't have to.

I have been interested in intentional communities for a long time, and my priorities have a lot more to do with location and sustainability than the people. Finding a group in adequate accord seems quite improbable.
The last time I was involved in a nascent community, every time we raised money for land, the price had gone up, and then things started to get very lopsided when we tried to bring in larger contributors.
I am also sceptical of Aspie social planning. I think it would tend toward isolation. I used to be in a large organization of nerds, but the president was only interested in the people, and was just what we needed.

No, I wouldn't.

I'm not inclined to look for shared-ownership living, though I suppose my opinion could change should I age into needing an assisted-living arrangement--but due to age, not autism.

But having an Aspie/HFAS "community" might merit an attempt. I'm thinking of a bunch of Aspies/HFAS that choose to move close together. Such a "community" might (a) become self-perpetuating by continuing to attract even more Aspie/HFAS folk, (b) be able to support community services tailored for that specific demographic, (c) provide a setting where local businesses might learn to cater to that demographic, and (d) develop new paradigms for social life.

Geography would remain more important to me, though. If I choose to move I will likely be looking to move to a specific region, not to an Aspie/HFAS "community"--and if that region happened to have an Aspie/HFAS community I would give it some thought.

Any Aspie/HFAS "community" should almost certainly not be exclusively for Aspie/HFAS. Families and surviving relatives would need to be comfy, too.

Would not be limited to members of WP

I suppose it would depend on who else was in the community then. But my answer would probably still be no as I don't like dealing with people.

Would. But not for social reasons.
I just could simply care less who would be my neighbors are.

But then I live in a different world, and dealing with a different sets of circumstances.



From where I came from, there are already few attempts of making a village or a whole physically manifested community that mainly caters autistics.

So far, it is all done by groups of families, caretakers and professionals -- capable of pooling their resources, planning, buying, building and filling the whole thing.

The range are either very inclusive to all cases and their families...
Or is mainly adequate for making 'level 2 supports' free roaming and independent as possible, yet level 1 support can take care of themselves and level 3 support cannot be well accommodated.

Likely all costly. Or takes years to pay for.

And the basis isn't simply just about autism or the respective autistic, but something closer to family-centric dynamics with a specific commonality in mind...



And I've yet to ever seen one that is done by autistic individuals themselves.

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I would move but only if I had my own "creative space" where I could make things and have space for hobbies.

One of the better communities I've been in was a rooming house with shared facilities. That's a format with good odds of success, but I think that the best communities start with a group of friends who then plan a physical situation for themselves. Filling a given space quickly is more problematic. An established group will have people wanting to move in, either to fill a vacancy or by adding to the facility. You might want to consider establishing a tiny home park.