Far-in-the-future possible aspie life

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Hi,

I've recently met with a few aspies, and I told them about a story like version of how I see the future for aspies, and how they live on earth. Some aspies might have thought to make "their own country", but I feel that is total seclusion. My fantasy is not like that. Here goes the fantasy/future look:

That aspies live near each other in such a way that they form a neighborhood of aspies in their part of the world. So let's say that there are about 5000 aspies on the spectrum, living in that neighborhood.
I imagine that this neighborhood is situated close to the center of a big city, a city that has 1 million or more inhabitants.

The neighborhood is grouped in a way that makes its boundaries look like a circle geographically.

* Outside the border of the circle are the "NT's", or "non-aspies" , which would preferably be friends of aspies that live in the aspie circle. We are not alone, some NT's are good, and can have aspie-like characteristics.
* On the border of the circle live the aspies that cope most well in society, meaning they will have the NT's closer to them.
* Closer in to the circle aspies which cope less well in society, live.
* In the middle those aspies live that cope least well in society. They have the most aspies around them in whatever direction they may choose.

As an example I imagine aspie people from outer parts of the ring taking aspies which are curious about the outside world, and they go together as they help their fellow aspie joyrney the world a bit.

There could be many such circles around the world, because everyone moving to one place on the planet, is I think practically difficult.
This is not a plan or a thing I would like to see. It's just a story or fantasy, or my mind which likes to see a positive future for aspies.

wonder how this would work as I believe you can't build up all the land/structures in one gulp due to presumable lack of resources (money!), will have to start from a building outward.

This was only a thought. I didn't think about practical matters. It's how I think positively about the world, and the future of aspies.

I think I wouldn't be able to cope if I had only Aspies around me, despite the fact that I don't cope well in the NT society. You see, some Aspies' behaviors overwhelm me, most Aspies would likely not be able to help me organize my daily living, which I do need help with, etc. I don't believe that Aspies intrinsically get along better with other Aspies, or that an Aspie community could be truly self-supporting without NTs (especially ifnot so independent Aspies like myself make up a large portion of the community).

I think I understand the metaphor you're trying to make here.

You want to reverse the supposed roles of society, putting the focus on the most isolated rather than the most popular?

SimpleSaga: Are you asking ChangelingGirl? Sorry, I got a bit confused about who you are asking.

A future aspie life.

"Mrs Slice, I regret to inform you that your child Vanilla has been born with Asperger's Syndrome. please do not worry because I have an injection here that will provide an instant and permanent cure, please roll up his shirt sleeve.

I WISH!! !! !!

Vanilla_Slice

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I am optimistic about our future. we will not be cured, we will be accepted, or at least more tolerated than we are now, as it is with the GLBTs, different cultures and those with visible disabilities.

How? Social structural changes, which do not happen overnight. Remember, AS has only been a dx since 1994. We may not notice the subtle changes and improvements, and may not see total acceptance in our lifetimes, but I think as humanity changes, it will be for the better.

Just having websites like WP gets the word out. Knowledge and communication foster beneficial change.

What about families where there's perhaps one AS and 3 NTs (or the other way around)?

In which 'circle' bit are they supposed to live?

It doesn't have to be geographical. Most likely, it will be social. I.e., draw lines between the people who consider themselves friends, and you should get a structure roughly like yours. However, there would also be a great many Aspies who socialize primarily with NTs.

Ah, the ol' concentric ring model.

As for the mixed AS-NT families, maybe we should consider suburbs in this "city", rather than use the concentric ring model.

It is like looking even deeper in a far-far fantasy/story future. This might not happen practically, but for me it's a personal positive thought of aspies who prefer to be in the presence of other aspies close to the place that they live.

I like thinking up fantasies too. I once though up a world, or a town/city within a parallel world that was run how an autistic person would have very little problems to live in.
In this world things are very different from our own. I thought of my own issues with light, noise, crowds so this aspie community has some areas very dark, quiet and it has got very little population. There are no big events because the locals don't like leaving their homes.
It's kind of a work in progress.

Actually I think a good aspie future would just be accepted for who we are.