What if everyone in the world were autistic?

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There be shades over all the flourescent lights.

Lot of people would be interrupting each other a lot more and talking over each other.

People be Boing each other out over their obsessions and telling each other to shut up

There be less emotional relationships

People be more rational

Less small talk

Lot less body language and most language would be verbal

More honesty and more hurt feelings

Learning be more visual

I know the thread is over 8 years old, but I'll reply.

On one hand, I believe Aspies are as apart from each other as we are from NTs, so socialization would still be awkward. However, since it would be a shared awkwardness, social interaction would actually be more equally balanced between any two people. There would still be disagreements and some people wouldn't get along, but I think the world would be more straight-forward. In this scenario, most of us would actually be less anxious and depressed in social situations, as we'd be equally as socially awkward as the next person, meaning we wouldn't feel like social failures in the grand sense, and we wouldn't be always on-guard in social interaction as we are in the real world.

NO, we don't have an alternate "social operating system" the way the NTs have now, and we would still feel weird interacting with people. But the weirdness would be mutual and everyone would feel the same. There'd be no neurotypical barometer to compare our behavior to.

I used to imagine what the world would be like if the standard human neurotype was autism (but high-functioning) and 1% of the population were "neurotypical" (and other non-NT disorders remained the same). So the norm was to flap hands, have narrow interests, put hands over ears at certain noises, and not be too bothered about socializing.
It would work, because (providing the norm was high-functioning) the world would be made for autistics so everyone would still survive. In jobs good social skills wouldn't be essential and the public wouldn't care for "perfect services" so much.
And us, the "neurotypicals" would be challenged in this world because we would be the minority, trying to survive in a world built by autistics for autistics. Going out clubbing would be less popular among the general population.

Like I said, society would work if the majority of people were autistic. Not all autistics are socially clueless, and if humans had been typically autistics for thousands of years then life would automatically adjust to that, and with autism being the majority, it would still be easy to mate and breed because the rules would be different and more suited to autistics.

But I suppose imagining a parallel world would mean using stereotypes, which I have done in this post.

I like how everyone assumes that an "autistic" world would be comprised entirely of super high-functioning sorts. I don't think even I would make the cut for this utopia. I suppose the rest of us will be shipped off to Iceland?

I don't think it would be a good thing because like it or not we need people like neurotypicals to keep civilization going. Humans have survived against overwhelmingly odds for centuries because of their ability to cooperate together and Aspies and people with Autism don't exactly work well with other people.

These are probably the types of threads where lower-functioning people on the spectrum probably want to punch us in the face(if not them then the parents.)

Many times in threads like these I see many positives about the diagnosis but none of the negatives. If autism was good enough to be a world full of them then it wouldn't be considered a disorder.

Now let me list some negatives here.

Less socialization, meaning most likely more depressed and unmotivated people and no one to teach how to get better.

A bunch of naive people that many animals would be more than willing to eat alive.

Due to less socialization there will also be less children, human population would most likely get much smaller if not die out.

Let's not forget that autism varies so who says that "high-functioning" would be the majority.

Many autistic people don't multitask very well or don't handle sudden changes well, for many on the spectrum life has shown that it doesn't care about that whatsoever.

Many of technology was made by people going to other areas and talking, planning, and getting ideas from one another, etc. Many autistic people don't like going out and meeting people so we probably wouldn't have most of the technology we have now.

I could go on and on but my basic point is: it's survival of the fittest. Many animals such as lions, tigers, bears, and other carnivorous animals would take full advantage of all of these things.

So most likely, that world wouldn't last too long. There is no "I" in team which is how societies are made. No one can exist alone.

These sorts of threads makes me feel like most of us spectrumers are useless after all, except for the ones with very high IQs maybe.

I often see in various threads that autism is a 'difference' and not a 'disability', and some get shirty if you say otherwise. But if it were a difference, then we would be able to construct a society, just a different one to what we have in this universe. But according to some of these posts, we wouldn't be able to survive two minutes, so autism must be a disability then and not a difference.

Well I'm sorry if some people don't like to hear that but when you get down to it it is a disability. For people who are high functioning it's not so much of a problem but think about the cases that are so severe that the autistic person can't even talk.

I hate being so blunt that I sound cruel but it is what it is. I have aspergers too and I can admit that there are actual problems that come with having it.

I see it as a disability too. But some Aspies think it's a difference and not a disability.

But unless you have the same intelligence as Bill Gates, we are just as mentally disabled as those with Downs or learning disabilities or dementia.

If the majority of the human race became autistic?

We would probably all be living like the orangutans in Borneo. Solitary apes living in the forest.

We wouldn't even be able to cooperate on the level of chimps, gorillas, bonobos, or even the other race of Orangutans that live on Sumatra (slightly more social than the Borneo ones).

We might be able to survive. But we wouldn't dominate the planet the way we do now.

This thread also indicates that we are all socially clueless and have zero social skills. I'm not socially clueless at all. Some social skills I had from birth, others I learnt in childhood, and I've matured since, so I have enough social skills to almost be "normal" but not quite enough to be neurotypical, if that makes sense.

Well I almost feel like some people in this thread are condemning neurotypicals as if we'd be better off without them. They are not inherently bad people.