Planet Aspergers???

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Ok guys let's liven up the place with a fantasy topic.

Let say one day we get to own a planet and it's full of ASD people with no or Neurotypicals are the minority.
How would it be like? How would it function? How would it look like?

In all probability, it would not function. Humans are a social species, we do not survive well outside of groups and autistics are terrible at forming groups.

Then a planet friendly to Autistics and Asperger's then?

They call those "university math departments."

To me I was thinking that while the citizens will not be forced to open up like they are in the NT world. In Aspergia, they will be allow to open at their own pace. I think Planet Aspergers will be a pretty clean planet and have more environmental friendly stuff. For example, candies will be made from natural products or even non existent. No artificial colorings. Also the food will not be grown with chemicals but with natural
fertilizers. There will no smokers. No dyes even hair dyes. So no chemical nonsenses of Earth.

However, a greedy NT empire seeking to conquer would mean the end of that.

Sugar is natural. Wait there is an effect on People with ASD?

I don't know how environmentally friendly it would be. Honestly, I only care about the environment in as much as I am directly impacted, and I wouldn't care that much if we turn the planet into a barren rock so long as we make sure that we have parks and gardens in some locations.

I also don't see the problem with candies. Why natural products. Why non-existent? I like candy. I don't really care much about the content. I also would imagine that the unnatural ingredients likely have some benefit, either in reducing the resources consumed or increasing the quality. I mean, companies don't arbitrarily alter things. The only thing that would be different is that sugar would likely be a bit more popular than corn syrup due to Aspies not having patience for arbitrary governmental subsidies.

I suppose there might be less chemicals, but I really don't know. I personally have thought about experimenting with drugs just for the experience. After all, why not? You can even do this legally with Salvia. I just haven't done so yet, mostly due to a desire for privacy if I were to do this.

I also see no reason not to have some elements of self-interest. How else would we coordinate the economy? Most models of socialism are considered intellectual dead and have been for decades. The best I've seen is still very market oriented but with some redistribution and an emphasis on worker ownership in industries.

Hm I think we can say that the citizens of Aspergia would be having food with less sugar. Sugarcane plantations would be less abundant on this planet. So is salt.

Well I thought that our conditions were aggravated by artificial flavourings and lead ions as well as chemicals you find in many things... We are a reflection of a human race that has been absorbing polluted air, water and food.

I also agree that an Aspie society would have more problems than projected. I don't think it would necessarily fail. But it would be a trade-off and even one that may be negative in some ways. Aspies have weaker soft-skills and are less comfortable with tacit knowledge and this could easily cause us to seem like idiot savants more than anything else. Success could only be maintained by some aspies taking on some NT-ish traits and acting as alphas in our society, I would think, and functioning as social hubs, risk-takers, and synthesizers of various forms of data. (They'd be alphas because in doing this, they would likely get more power.)