Best countries for us to live?

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Austria is nice and a bit more Aspie friendly than Germany but I still wouldn't recommend it to anyone. My recommendations are Denmark or Switzerland.

I think I would do well in Svalbard.

The recommendations of Denmark really shocked me. I assume that the people who made these are unaware of what current policy is operative there.

The Danes are actively working to eliminate all people with Down's Syndrome and have recently announced that the weeding out of suspect foetuses is proceeding so well that people with this will soon be eliminated from Danish society. If this isn't state policy and practice of eugenics, then I don't know what is. There are many accessible articles about this. When the last Danish Down's has been eliminated by their focused abortion programme, which group will be next?

This makes me remember what Dietrich Bonhoeffer said about the men doing nothing to help others thinking they would be personally exempt..the same men who ended up saying in the next cell "and then they came for me..."
http://egnorance.blogspot.co.nz/2011/08 ... t-new.html
http://findingjustice.org/danish-down-s ... imination/

The idea of leaving the anglosphere is quite frightening but I feel I have no chance here as everyone hates me simply for being abnormal.

I've lived in two countries, South Africa where I was born and New Zealand for the last ten years. I've been to Australia a lot as well. I travel to various Pacific Island locations for work purposes on a regular basis.

I would strongly recommend New Zealand. I would also recommend Auckland simply because it is the biggest city and there is a certain anonymity about living in large cities. Wellington is a very classy urban city too. You get the best of all worlds because Auckland has the big city life appeal but then its not far to go and you are in beautiful countryside.
New Zealand has no social benefits for a person diagnosed with Aspergers, so keep that in mind. If getting a job and keeping it is not an issue for you, Auckland has all sorts to offer.Wellington as well.

I agree with the post that didn't think Australia a good bet. I find Australians to be uncompromisingly loud, extrovert and assertive. I'm probably being very unfair to many Australians who don't fit this description; apologies. I find New Zealand society to be a lot more well mannered, polite and softer spoken. Again, I know some people in New Zealand who are just the opposite of that. After all, as a person who is born and bred South African, I deal with the stereotype of what a South African is, so I guess we need to just be kinder about each other.

I guess it might be more about finding your own particular niche in whatever country and society you ultimately choose.

lets get some more opinions

I'm from Trinidad & Tobago and can tell you with all honesty & certainty that T&T is no place for an aspie. The people there are small-minded & ass-backwards. They have zero tolerance for those who are different than the majority. I know. They made my life a living hell while I was there. It's no wonder I spent an enormous amount of time avoiding people by walking up and down the beach alone.

I now live in Seattle. There are problems here - racial, housing, economic status, crime - but the city is still very accepting for those who are different. I can walk down the street wearing a flaming pink dress, glitter high heels and a silver wig and no one will say a word. I can walk down the street dressed like the Dalai Lama, the Sultan of Brunei or the whore of Calcutta and no one will say a word. Very liberal indeed.