Aspies For Freedom

Why are people talking about buying an island? What would it be used for? Are you serious?

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We most certainly are serious.

The island would be used as a combination of holiday home and residential housing for autistics and their families, a place to escape from NT society for a while or permanently.

The island is a dream. I'm sorry to admit it, because the idea is quite intoxicating. But there is no way that we could get people of so many different ideas and classes and put them together. It would be like if you put the UN Headquarters on an island. People would fight, tensions would flare, and generally we would be far too unstable. There are a few unorthodox solutions to this, one of which would be to flood the island with a tremendous wealth. I have previously suggested a surefire way to get this wealth, but was shot down. Thus I am joining the naysayers.

If something hasn't been tried before, no-one can say if it will work or not.

Man-made islands are being made now in various locations, people live on them. They don't all know each other before they buy a house on the Palm in Dubai, but they buy and move there.

I don't see why autistics should be restricted to doing things that other people do all the time.
Buying holiday chalets, going abroad, or even buying an island.

Your tourist market is unreliable. Let me explain this in mathematical terms. Autism and the like affects about 1 in every 150 people. Let's say(and I'm giving a fairly loose number here), that 50% of these people are high functioning. There you have 1 in 300 people that would even really have a chance of getting on to this island. Then take out those too poor, busy, sick, or simply afraid to go to a place like this. Your odds are getting slimmer and slimmer. Now take out families that are more likely to go to Disney or someplace like that. Slimmer and slimmer. Take out those who are going to another place, like a cruise or the West Indies or someplace that they're interested in otherwise. What do you think the odds are now? Not nearly enough to sustain an entire island, with electricity and food shipments and any amenities whatsoever. It just won't work.

Out of a global population of millions of autistics we need less than 1000. Think about that sentence.
We are already aware of your objections to this project and they have been noted. However, it will still be going ahead.

subatai: I have explained on your other thread that it is unfair that you will fill each thread on this idea with negative comments simply because your own idea was not taken up.
Do not post in this forum section if it is simply to say 'it wont work', etc. We now know that you think that, there is no need to repeat it on each thread.

I think buying an island would be greaaaat.

And even, we can do also simpler: think about the Amish, or about the communities living in the Nevada deserty. You can also buy some land somewhere in the US, and set up a farm or something like that there.
But it's true that if we are paranoid, we may think it will end like for the Davidians

What about if it was a community located on a peninsular somewhere?

I do not mean to be hostile, but are the environmental implications of building a man-made island being considered here?  Why not build a commune or some such in an already developed area instead of building an island where there isn't one or destroying natural space?

I hope there wont be too many who have family coming along, then it would easily become a place for families to meet instead of aspies. Currently I find that the internet currently has the funcion that the supposed island is supposed to have.

However, the next step would be to meet the aspies you know from the internet person to person at a set location. And this island seems to be the perfect place.

I love this Island idea.

Totally for it.
If I could find the money to contribute...

I even have an MSN Buddy who has some aspie traits that would like this idea. A place where he can just be himself.