Hiding in plain sight, like the aliens in the Men in Black, or the underground of cities, where people steal electricity off the grid.
Why don't you look into the hippy movement of the 1960s, the alternative movement, the alternative medical care, food and clothing services they set up around Haight-Ashbury? They were meeting people's needs and setting an example for others without actually owning any territory, having a UN seat, or having a flag. It might do Aspies some genuine good to have a commune, for example, where they can go to live together and be accepted.
Any flower children can add to this? I was born too late to remember that generation, all I know about the 60s I learned from TV.
Actually, the term to use on AFF is "Autfinity".
It would be easier to eliminate the places it will not be.
Politically unstable areas (cleaning up after a war is annoying)
Expensive areas (Autfinity will built on a budget)
Dense areas (We need some room)
Places without useable water (We can only live so long without water)
Places without a local source of materials (We need to build the place)
Thoughts?
The free food for all-- stolen from a Safeway truck..... the clothing give a ways, medical students providing free medical care..... it was on History Channel last Sunday.
A commune might be the most realistic idea for Aspergia..... or shared living space of some kind, large building.
My brother had the idea of a "Geek House" of himself (I think he could be an Aspie), me (proven to be an Aspie), his close friend (later proven to be an Aspie), and a girl he liked..... He was the guy who had the best job at the time, she had the second best job and the two of us had the crummiest jobs... it did not come to pass.
While I do not qualify as a flower child, I qualify as a child of a flower child and UGH! You do not want that!
Oh and the Haight, was then, and is now, filthy and nasty. Drugs and smelly homeless people.
Think how close it is to public transit wherever it is..... it can't be a commune in the middle of nowhere. It would have to be someplace in a city with a good public transit system, many of us do not drive.
That means "Geek House" would have to be urban. Cha-ching.
Yeah, Korrigan, the show mentioned that too. Daddy was free to go or Mommy was free to tell him off. In any case, Mommy, where's Daddy?
Putting money in common is one thing. Insist that to each marriage one's own though. Get yer own. And keep it for life.
It should be someplace with lots of seasonal variation, a great deal of snow, hot summers, rain in the fall and spring.
I repeat, if you wish to live somewhere cold and unpleasant and cold Canada pays people extra money just for living way up north. But seriously, you really don't want to. And you don't want to be in Greenland when the Global Warming starts really messing with the climate; remember The Day After Tomorrow.
Okay, me use not big words for not smart people:
Changes in seasons not same thing as cold all time. You savvy that? Or do me have to make it more easy?
Second, those of us who don't live in Delusionia know that "The Day After Tomorrow" IS NOT A DOCUMENTARY BUT IS A WORK OF FANTASY!
What about choosing industries to focus on? Gotta make money to pay for all this. What are some industries in which the Aspie thought process is a strong advantage?
Let's take a quick in-depth look at software. What's something Aspies would have no problem doing in programming that would drive most other people nuts?
My guess would be taking pieces of the code and translating them "by hand" from third- and fourth-generation languages into assembly language. (You'd have to have a version for every type of microprocessor that would be running the program, and do it all over again every time a new microprocessor hits the market.) The goal of that being to make the programs run faster than they would if they had been sent through a compiler, by minimizing the number of clock cycles needed to perform each elemental task. This would probably be more for the algorithmic parts of programs and not so much for the front-end stuff that actually communicates with the user. Just a thought.
Y'notice anything? There is a reason for that. Not cold all the time but really really cold in the winter and really really short summers. No need to get all snappy 'nstuff.
And what is your point? I said I wanted seasonal VARIATION, not SHORT summers. Are you really unable to tell the difference between "short" and "hot"?
My guess would be taking pieces of the code and translating them "by hand" from third- and fourth-generation languages into assembly language. (You'd have to have a version for every type of microprocessor that would be running the program, and do it all over again every time a new microprocessor hits the market.)
No thanks, I'd rather puke all day. We are not merely insectoid drones, all identical to each other. I actually have a real mind and would not be suitable for the dronework you advocate.
You'd probably be better off in some city with a Metro system- you need people to employ us. It is wishful thinking to think you could have your own hiding place with its own economy and industry. No way. Unless it is an island mining bird ***.
Some multi-family dwelling, old apartment high-rise, something like a college dorm at least..... or at least a place with enough rooms and bathrooms would do, put bunk beds in, subject to the local zoning laws (they might cut you a break if you're not Hispanic or Middle Eastern)
If you manage to do it, welcome to the world of property taxes, insurance, repairs, and maintenace, although as a non-profit, maybe you could get some charitable assistance, talk to a lawyer or somebody....
Think immediate needs
1. Food, water
2. Utlities: water, electricity, heat (natural gas, oil, or steam boiler)
3. Transportation: many of your people don't drive
4. Employment: your people have to have it to pay the bills, or better be seeking it if you let them live there anyway
You would then need access to some sortova career workshop to do resumes, mock interviews, and how to put up with makeup, shiny shoes, and dressy clothes for two hours, and if you get the job, the same thing for 8 hours a day
GuessWho,
That woud be an excellent idea for a aspie community. How do you suggest a small aspie community in a major urban area would be organized?
Guano Island, an Aspie Nation.....
A blue bird on a green field, with a black mass coming out of its cloaca..... there has to be a letter A somewhere on the flag.... a slogan at the bottom, What's Mined Is Ours
What good is a town if there is no employer? Kinda reversing the order of the cart and the horse.... you want to be where the employers are..... to support the community.
We can't run away from the NTs.... we need them, for the purpose of employment anyway, at least until we figure out how to build a nation state with a solid economic base that can defend itself from whomever wants to plunder its wealth.
Otherwise there are always the Guano Islands. But it was hot, brutal work and there was little water, and they stayed only long enough to scoop out the poop.