Retirement Home for Autistic People

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Anyone heard of one... anywhere?

I'm getting old and am starting to think about things like this.

I think we will probably have to build our own. Mine will have a workshop and a couple of sensory rooms, and if we can get the right residents the best self built network going. And we won't be sitting going the TV turning into vegetables thank you very much, we will be playing in the workshops quietly for our social stuff doing custom jobs to get the home' s bills paid.

Because, after a lifetime bending to fit NT ways I want me final years with visiting NTs bending to fit Autistic ways.

Thinking of the future with updated technology and possible things that could happen, by the time i'm retirement age (which could be raised to 70) I would likely be living on the streets or be forced to live in crowded accommodation who knows.

I know someone here who lives in a home for people 55 or over.

It's not specifically for autism, though.

We seriously need to start our own.

However, I'd rather it were a community like a complex of houses, rather than a single building of apartments or rooms.

I already live in a building for primarily retirees and it's nothing but a hotbed of gossip and malice for people who now don't have enough in their lives to keep them better occupied.

I'd rather live in my own separate house, so that there's much more of a feeling of desirable isolation (as opposed to the bad kind of isolation) but within a community of people with something in common.

I think that would be a great idea. There should be specific rooms that cater to different hobbies so that we can make things to sell. There should also be a technology room with 20 top of the line computers where we can go on the Internet. There should also be a science room where we can do experiments and talk science. A math room is also a must for those of us with mathematical minds.