What would you think of an Autistic village in rural Europe?

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It would sound like a fascinating idea in my opinion. What would you think of it?

i hope it's an accessible rural village.

So...do we build a new one, or do we just throw out non-autistics and occupy an existing one?

I imagine an autistic version of one of those semi-crazy/religious/doomsday survivalist compounds.

I vote we ban cars and all ride round on horses.
We could use the horse poo as fertiliser and for methane-generated power.
But I don't want to go all medieval - imagine being without internet access

Agree on the internet, but I suggest a location with natural hot springs for basically free electricity and hot water (yay steam-power). Also, solar-powered Zeppelins for long-range communications with the rest of the world.

Even in that village I would be an outsider.

I would say we ban loud motorcycles and cars with loud engines.

But I would miss my family though, being so they're all NT.

That would be like a meal with just spice and dessert. I would like to live in partnership with NTs so that I can focus on technical issues, and they can figure out how not to upset people with information they need.

The Soca Valley in western Slovenia has 14 villages, or settlements, ranging in population from 376 (Plave) to 3227 (Solkan). Most are around 1,200 hundred, though. One could be ideal for an autistic settlement provided everyone there is on the same page. Of course, internal conflict can be expected if people are of varying races, creeds, religions, political affiliations, languages, countries of origin, diets, occupations, sexualities, positions on the spectrum, and so on.

I like the idea, as long as we build a new village from scratch or settle in one already abandoned. Not that I think we'd actually be able to dislodge any extant neurotypical inhabitants, by the way.

However, what would we do if somehow the village grew prosperous and began to attract neurotypicals?

We'd designate a less desirable part of our growing utopia for them exclusively to live in . Also, we'd implement a rule that they need to have a sign on their clothing, making visible their status as NTs. Yes. I can see no perilous historical precedent to this idea whatsoever.





"No ma'am, this is the village for autistic cis-het male vegan liberal atheists. You need to go past the village for the black transexual deaf conservative wiccans, and then you'll get to the village for the jewish paleo-diet crossfitting environmentalist women who speak portuguese."

Can we build the village in Germany?

How about we only accept people who sign a pledge to never start a conflict over races, creeds, religions, political affiliations, languages, countries of origin, diets, occupations, sexualities, positions on the spectrum, and so on, whatever their own may be, and uncompromisingly kick them out for life if they ever break it?

..."All medieval " like Samuel L. Jackson ?








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We could use the horse poo as fertiliser and for methane-generated power.
But I don't want to go all medieval - imagine being without internet access [/quote]

There are legal problems regarding village residency rules. I'd move this pipe-dream to a privately-owned, co-op run chunk of land. If you want an abandoned town with usable buildings, look for areas where agribusiness has been consolidating farms, but watch out for the poisons they use. I bought a house within two blocks of a hospital, PO and dozens of stores for $15 k 11 years ago, and all it needed was paint.

Of course, this hypothetical village could still be in the US. Some parts of America look so much like their European counterparts that they have been historical magnets for immigrants fleeing persecution and other ails from their original homeland. To wit:

Holmes County, Ohio - Amish Country, strongly Germanic (and Republican).
Poulsbo, WA - resembled parts of Norway so much that Norwegians settled there.
Helen, Georgia - looks like a transplanted Bavarian alpine village.
Solvang, California - A feast for the eyes, it looks like Denmark to the bone.
Leavenworth, Washington - Bavarian.
Lancaster County - Pennsylvania Dutch Country