Published on 12, July, 2020
I was watching this Aucademy video last night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPo-f4Ea4-U
They were discussing what an ideal world for autistic people would look like. The suggestions on the PowerPoint slides made perfect sense to me and I would love to live in such a place.
Imagine a world where all communication was clear and straightforward. Everyone would have their own space. Nature and animals would be cared for. Best of all it would be quiet!
Please share any comments or suggestions of what your ideal world might be like. Particularly any changes that might be realistically achievable on the planet we are stuck on for the time being
Realistically utopia doesn’t exist on earth because no perfect people autistic or otherwise exist on earth. A real autistic society would be about balancing the competing needs of very different kinds of autistic people. My observation is that autistic people gravitate to extremes.
we are often simultaneously the quietest and noisiest people in the room. The most sensitive and insensitive. The most introverted and extroverted. The most degenerate and puritanical. The most horny and frigid.
An autistic sociaty would have to be one built on tolerance of the behaviour of others that aggravates us. One with no unwritten rules and very public discourse and broad consensus on a body of probably quite complicated written rules. A society in which it is accepted that anything not unambiguously forbidden is permitted.