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Hey, I was thinking that if some of us ASD ever came into money
we could start an ASD community where people with ASD could live freely

the only problem with my great idea is that in general
we are not very good at earning money

great at taking benefits but not so great at paying tax
as bad as it sounds

I also guess, if some of us do eventually make or inherit money
we will inevitably use the money to make our own lives better

i mean, even the rich and famous celebrities
who make their own fortunes

may give money to charities
that inevitably will use the money to pay staff and to... "raise awareness"
which can of course improve our lives in the long term

once the knowledge base has got through to the masses
how ever long that takes

whether that saves or improves people with ASD lives
i can not really say

how do we keep track of such things

but alas, the idea of a ASD utopia
where all ASD folk can live freely as human beings
and live within their own limits is but a dream at the moment

ah well
it was a nice dream....

It would be very nice. I suspect it's a common dream. I have thought about it too. I believe with time, future generations will slowly get closer to that. Actually, when I looked at this forum a few years ago, there was talk of such a thing, and I never heard about it again. I don't remember who was discussing it. Said she was working on a community living situation out west in the US. I don't know what happened. Easy to imagine the resources just weren't available. Living off grid is near impossible for the average person.

You want aspies to "Live freely"????

Maybe you could just tag us aspies, and then release us back into the wild.

I live my life freely every day. I don't need a separate ASD community to be able to do that.

Most of my life this was true, but since I got my new job I feel like I am finally in a good place financially. As one person I make about the same as the median household income in my country. Still, I am not overflowing with wealth such that I could build a compound of the sort described by the OP. Rather, my sights are for now just set on a decent down payment on a small house and paying off my car note. It's more than I ever could have hoped for though.

Similarly, I read an article that suggested AS folk's have access to grants that allows them to apply their unique perspective and focus to solve problems. My AS-like mom and I had hundreds of ideas of which a few would have been fabulous to implement, but we were too busy trying to manage our day-to-day stress. I had one idea recently that was really good, but in the face of my stress, I didn't write it down and forgot it overnight. It was triggered by an article about a topic I don't typically read about. I have experiments I would love to run (electro-magnetic force meets biology), but am not in a position to do so. The book NeuroTribes talks about a man who was encouraged by his father to "noodle" and continued doing so as independently wealthy. He discovered many things, but few were widely shared b/c there were so many skeptics. He made a positive impact nonetheless. I also have thought about creating ASD-friendly workplaces. I know that's been done well for living spaces, and I imagine somebody has done it well in the workplace - so more of it!!

I live freely anyway and would rather live a few streets away from my parents than in a weird aspie only area which would probably be in America anyway.

I'd be ok with people forming that but I wouldn't want to be part of it.

I like living in a city where eccentricity is welcome though. I encourage people to do that if they can. An ASD community might be more open to that than a lot of NT villages are.

IMO we need an autistic "community" in the sense of an organized subculture, but not necessarily a "community" in the sense of an autistic-only physical building or village.