Published on 12, July, 2020
I wonder what the world would be like if ASD people were the majority? I think it would be less smelly, less noisy and bright and just more chilled out. I think architecture would be different too, more plants and fresh air, and spaces would arranged with more flow, spaces that could be both private and open when required. Would there be adverts? I think there would but they'd be more information bulletins than aspirational. Education would be in small groups and organised according to your primary sense not the one size fits no one that we have now. There would be chill out spaces for when people get overwhelmed and an oportunity to explore why we find something overwhelming and what could be done to help. Clothes would be of natural fibres and would come with laundry instructions designed to be removed and all seems and hems would be enclosed French ones.
What would your ASD world be like?
One thing that wouldn't happen, is groups of people having a brain storming session stressing the importance of "lived experience", that none of them have designing and funding services for us poor unfortunates. I hope in an ASD world we wouldn't do this to NT's as they so often seem to do to us. So many services seem to lose interest once you've got all the benefits you're entitled to, I hate being treated like my head does up at the back, because my needs don't meet the carefully planed requirements that their service offers.