Would you want to live in an "aspie community"?

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19 Jun 2010, 6:23 pm

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I think the result of this would be possible future segregation, so it's a bad idea. Living in an assisted home if needed is completely different than having a whole community of people.

Aspies are already segregated in a way because most of em are introverted & keep to themselves

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19 Jun 2010, 6:33 pm

What a grate idea...perhaps we could call it the "Y-Knot" :lol:

hale_bopp wrote:

No.

How is anyone supposed to learn about life by living in a bubble?

Not to burst your bubble or anything,
But "Life" really is a bubble.

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19 Jun 2010, 6:39 pm

hale_bopp wrote:

No.

How is anyone supposed to learn about life by living in a bubble?

As a thought experiment, let's pretend that you were so fed up with the economy that you decided to move to Russia (pretend that in Russia, jobs are plentiful like their snow). If you assimilated with other Russians, and got used to their customs, would you be more open-minded? If you decided to live in an English-speaking community, would you be living in a bubble?

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19 Jun 2010, 6:42 pm

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buryuntime wrote:

I think the result of this would be possible future segregation, so it's a bad idea. Living in an assisted home if needed is completely different than having a whole community of people.

Aspies are already segregated in a way because most of em are introverted & keep to themselves

I agree. Neurotypicals shun aspies based upon their perceived differences. A community would merely bring those shunned individuals together.

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19 Jun 2010, 6:53 pm

hale_bopp wrote:

No.

How is anyone supposed to learn about life by living in a bubble?

There is enough to be learned in an aspie community. And I don't mean literally a prison with walls and no one in/out. Now, if you are gonna argue that people won't interact with NTs if they leave the place simply for some errands, I would say that the total number of people you would interact with would be more anyway, unless you are one of those people who always meetup with aspies frequently.

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19 Jun 2010, 6:59 pm

This community is a few miles along the road from me, I shop for my bread and groceries here.

Newton Dee Community

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19 Jun 2010, 7:01 pm

It sounds so irritating. I would hate it.

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19 Jun 2010, 7:10 pm

CosmicRuss wrote:

This community is a few miles along the road from me, I shop for my bread and groceries here.

Newton Dee Community

This is for learning differences in general, not for aspies specifically.

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19 Jun 2010, 7:11 pm

Interesting thought, I don't know if I'd like it or not though...depends on the exact circumstances surrounding said Aspie Community.

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19 Jun 2010, 7:11 pm

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How is anyone supposed to learn about life by living in a bubble?

ah but you see, the very nature of learning about life is present in a community at all times, its learning about the NT life that would be missing and that would be fine for me.

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19 Jun 2010, 7:20 pm

pyzzazzyZyzzyva wrote:

CosmicRuss wrote:

This community is a few miles along the road from me, I shop for my bread and groceries here.

Newton Dee Community

This is for learning differences in general, not for aspies specifically.

That`s right but I think the ethos of that place would be a good foundation for an aspie community.

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19 Jun 2010, 7:34 pm

If your intrested forming an Aspie community look here - http://www.ic.org/

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19 Jun 2010, 7:41 pm

CosmicRuss wrote:

pyzzazzyZyzzyva wrote:

CosmicRuss wrote:

This community is a few miles along the road from me, I shop for my bread and groceries here.

Newton Dee Community

This is for learning differences in general, not for aspies specifically.

That`s right but I think the ethos of that place would be a good foundation for an aspie community.

I guess I thought of an Aspie community as one where members were independent before but chose to live together, rather than being forced to live together because they lacked certain life skills. Having had experience with Newton Dee, would YOU want to live there? If you like the general idea of Newton Dee, but there are certain things that you wanted to change, what would they be?

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19 Jun 2010, 7:54 pm

Doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun. Forming a softball team would be out and any community picnic would result in mass perseverating.

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19 Jun 2010, 8:10 pm

dyingofpoetry wrote:

Doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun. Forming a softball team would be out and any community picnic would result in mass perseverating.

It all depends on where they are on the spectrum -- I don't see why it has to result in mass perseverating. I think the idea (jc6chan correct me if I'm wrong) is that aspies would form the community so that they could enjoy each other's company, and not have to worry about social mistakes (largely because nobody would notice).

I'd think if a picnic were to be organized, those who would perseverate and not interact would not sign up anyway.

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19 Jun 2010, 8:30 pm

pyzzazzyZyzzyva wrote:

Yes, thats correct. Its not that aspies would not notice, but that they are less likely to judge others when the mistake happens.

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