What would a majority-AS world be like?

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I'm used to some pretty deep thinking, but even I can't totally get my head around this one.

A couple of days ago, I wondered: what would the world be like if, say, over 90% of the population was aspie? What would it be like as a---well, I don't know what you'd call NTs, because they'd no longer be "typical"---in such a world?

Thoughts? We could have a lot of fun with this.

I think much would depend on the degree of basic executive function and possible co-existing health conditions. (I may be overly literal about this, but I hate the term "co-morbid," with it's association with death). It would be pretty chaotic for people if their ability to function on a day to day basis was poor (I was there as little as five years ago) and very sad if they had multiple serious health problems. It isn't the AS itself, but the associated conditions that make it difficult.

Total chaos! Nothing would function

If that was the case, we would be neurotypicals, and the NTs would be the ones with some sort of non-NT disorder, and I don't know about the allistic-but-not-NT conditions.

I do often like to imagine what the world would be if walking around flapping hands was the norm, and everybody just talked about their narrow interests, and communication between humans was different. I know there would still be lots of communication between people, because being Aspie does not mean we don't ever interact, but I think the subtle social rules would be different and less valued.

But I am talking about if the majority of humans were high-functioning and verbal Aspies. I'm not sure what life would be like if the majority were low-functioning non-verbal autistics, but I think there would still be intelligent human life on the planet, just all done in a different way.
I think any neurological state would still make up a fully functioning world. I mean, the dinosaurs lived for millions of years and all they did was stomp around. I'm not sure how they went distinct though, as there wasn't any nuclear wars.

It'd probably quickly devolve into something like this:

I doubt it would be that bad... OTOH things would probably function as smoothly as clockwork. I'm pretty sure high-functioning aspies would all have their own inner sense of duty... maybe the only people in that world who'd be unhappy would be a small number of non-AS control freaks, because they'd be laughed at?

Either way, I think a majority aspie world would almost certainly have a lot more hobby shops.

Like your average L&D thread.