To Be Socially Different

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I really do not get why everyone has to be a social clone of each other in order to not have a developmental disorder. There are diagnosed autistic people who can solve problems that so called NT's will never even know exists. So now society can be stupid just as long as nobody dares to be socially different then you will not be classed as having a brain disorder. We will probably be put into concentration camps and gased by the government for being social misfits. Have I gone too far on this issue?

I can sympathise with what you say. I think we are given a syndrome because our behaviours do not fall within the narrow acceptable range of behaviour society expects. I guess it would be much easier for the ruling classes if we all behaved the same, and because we don't we have to be labelled and made aware of. I hope we don't end up in concentration camps. My hope is that our abilities will be recognised and valued in the coming years.

What would this world be like if the ruling class was autistic?

Doubt that'll ever happen, but if it did, things would be very different -- not convinced the world would be any better though!

We could wear white coats and diagnose NT syndrome in people.

White's just not my colour

Ha Ha

You have to come up with something other than NT syndrome since the dominant neurology (yours) would be the typical neurology. Somebody somewhere already did; plethism- it being the Greek derived opposite of autism. As an autistic person does not want to be in or of crowds, a plethistic person becomes very miserable and dysfunctional when deprived of lots of company.


To do this seriously (and not simply in a snarky "I want revenge" way) you have to think about what would be most debilitating for a person currently labled NT if in an AS majority society.

I think it would be the lack of socializing (so does whoever coined "plethistic"). There have been threads where people talked about how solitary confinement in jail wouldn't be such a bad thing, but in jail it is considered the ultimate punishment short of actual death penalty. Lack of social contact causes NT people to go literally insane- after the depression and other psychological symptoms, there is actual loss of self.

Being socially oriented in a society built for very little contact would cause major dysfunction, using the social model of disability. So what would you in a white coat do to help these people who rapidly spiraled downward with insufficient social contact?

Your thinking has a bit of a flaw, I think. Maybe I'm not understanding it right. If autistic people ruled the world, who would take care of all of them? I can't take care of myself. My behavior may fall out of society's very narrow range of acceptance, but then, there's a lot more to it than that. I couldn't survive if left to my own devices. I would burn the house down, I would starve to death, I would get hit by a car.... the list goes on. This is the reality of autism for many people who have it, and it's frustrating when ideas like this are passed around sometimes (not saying they shouldn't be at all), but it makes the public fail to see what a true disability it can be.