What would our planet look like?

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One question I have for some is how is the new world supposed to support such lavish lifestyle and technology? To achieve that here requires large amounts of people working long hours in harsh industrial settings. There must be mines, and factories and farms and processing plants, etc.

At first I would imagine the transplanted colony after establishing rudimentary shelters, would have to devote most of its time and energy to food production. This is difficult with picked, healthy and experienced colonists. The history of Roanoke and Jamestown comes to mind. It would be even more difficult with a large percentage of the colonists having little or none of the needed work experience and unaccustomed to physical labor. Indeed many are classified disabled.

Even with a extremely benign climate and very fertile regions, the initial colonization would not be guareented to succeed or even survive, with a lot more likely to go wrong then right. Personally I doubt even half of the original colonists would survive the first 5 years. Due to shortages, stresses and deprivations It could even shatter and fragment into a few pockets of survival, living in very primitive conditions.

I would not really want to go on that trip. No coffee (at least not any time soon) alone rules it out for me.

But let say it did succeed. In time the colony would increasingly lose its ASD characacter, as even with both parents having ASD at least half the children will be NT. ASD is not a natural evolutionary development, but according to the latest theories, various types of damage in a broad area of about 100 gene groups. By maybe generation 4 or 5 the majority will be NT again.

I might, or at least in my youth been tempted to be part of a colonization attempt on a new planet. But only done with the best chances of success and including the natural broad range of people types needed to overcome all obstacles and adapt. A few ASD types could have their place in that, as they always do, adding their own little bit of special talents.

I like this part.

I like your questions, but I didn't imagine it as some kind og colony starting from scratch, but rather some kind of already existing society consisted only/mostly of ASD people (like we were really from another planet, not considering the genetic stuff).

I imagine it would be pretty much like this one with those we now call NTs being marginalised, maligned and seen as defective.

Interesting, but not surprising, most posters here seem to describe their own utopia.

Except maybe for less aggressive sensory stimulation, I imagine it would be pretty much like this one with those we now call NTs being marginalised, maligned and seen as defective.

How would that work?

One question I have for some is how is the new world supposed to support such lavish lifestyle and technology? To achieve that here requires large amounts of people working long hours in harsh industrial settings. There must be mines, and factories and farms and processing plants, etc.

At first I would imagine the transplanted colony after establishing rudimentary shelters, would have to devote most of its time and energy to food production. This is difficult with picked, healthy and experienced colonists. The history of Roanoke and Jamestown comes to mind. It would be even more difficult with a large percentage of the colonists having little or none of the needed work experience and unaccustomed to physical labor. Indeed many are classified disabled.

Even with a extremely benign climate and very fertile regions, the initial colonization would not be guareented to succeed or even survive, with a lot more likely to go wrong then right. Personally I doubt even half of the original colonists would survive the first 5 years. Due to shortages, stresses and deprivations It could even shatter and fragment into a few pockets of survival, living in very primitive conditions.

I would not really want to go on that trip. No coffee (at least not any time soon) alone rules it out for me.

But let say it did succeed. In time the colony would increasingly lose its ASD characacter, as even with both parents having ASD at least half the children will be NT. ASD is not a natural evolutionary development, but according to the latest theories, various types of damage in a broad area of about 100 gene groups. By maybe generation 4 or 5 the majority will be NT again.

I might, or at least in my youth been tempted to be part of a colonization attempt on a new planet. But only done with the best chances of success and including the natural broad range of people types needed to overcome all obstacles and adapt. A few ASD types could have their place in that, as they always do, adding their own little bit of special talents.

Na, I don't see that happening. We'd live in a world based on interests and NTs are just as capable of having interests too. The difference is that maybe they'd hop around more or have interests that are more socially inclined. That wouldn't break the system if we create it right. Our set of rules that makes sense for us but would also be just as fitting for them.

There's one answer: robots.

Do you mean like there is this army of robots that does everything for us basically? That technology doesn't exsist yet though. Robots are used for some things but in limited capacities. The technology and support systems needed to maintain robots is more complicated and demanding then the robots they maintain. (I have some familiarity there). Where did they come from? Who built them? Who and what maintains them?

They come from the abundant, unused minerals of the planet we just colonized. We built them. ASD people with a special interest in them make sure everything is in working order. Robots that see heavy industrial use are even repaired by other robots. Seeing as we're talking about literally enough ASD population to inhabit a planet I'm sure we could make the necessary breakthroughs considering how many robotics experts there would be, as hot asians are a work incentive.

Compassionate Anarchism FTW!