Aspies For Freedom

I used houses and apartments as examples.  Actually there are many possible variations on this theme, for aspies in different parts of life.

For college students:  It could be fairly easy to get a few floors of a dormatory.  I heard on the radio the other day that the business school at the local university here is doing this very thing for its business students.  It can happen even in an existing dormatory over a period of a few years because of the rate of resident turnover as new students enroll and old students graduate.  (I might mention that when I was in college, there were student groups for every known minority.  Of course, at the time I didn't realize I was part of a minority, albeit an unknown one.  Such a group for aspies can do the organizing to secure living space in proximity.)

Then there are the mostly-NT families raising at least one aspie kid.  I'm wondering if several such families living on the same block would make things any easier.  Mix into it aspie couples raising NT kids, and mixed NT-AS couples and any kind of kid.  The kids would hopefully not be so lonely and depressed, and the parents could network.  Maybe the NT parents wouldn't be so terrified about their kids' futures if they knew some AS adults and saw them every day.

The list goes on and can include retirement communities, condominiums, townhouses, trailer parks, etc.

I had mentioned taking advantage of the newness of a community if it is part of recent urban sprawl.  That's still good, but you might also find an apartment complex that has somewhat rapid turnover, and gradually occupy an increasingly greater portion of the units as other residents move out for various reasons.

In all of these variations, proximity is a catalyst to put alot of the ideas discussed on these sites into action.  Whatever we need to accomplish to secure our niche in society, it can be found alot faster this way.

Things to be learned from such an endeavor:  Though we're not reputed for being social, eventually an alternate set of social customs would eventually develop for our use when we're among our own kind.  Exactly what, we won't know until it's tried.  Another thing that would be interesting is how it would influence the types of businesses that set up shop in the surrounding neighborhood.

BTW, I'm perfectly serious here.  I didn't mean it in a hypothetical sense.  If I didn't think my career goals would eventually lead to my relocation, I would be trying to organize it.  (Of course, I suppose I could organize one now and then another later wherever I end up.)

Gays were the minority being favored in the ad for condominiums.  The ad had a little rainbow flag on it and the caption "Proudly serving the GLBT community".  That's just another indicator of that minority's progress over the past few decades.  We could learn alot from them.  

(And to think there was once a time they used "aversive therapy" to "cure" homosexuality.  I remember a documetary I watched years ago.  It included some footage from the 1960s, depicting a gay guy viewing slides of attractive people, both male and female.  He would look at a picture of a man, but then he had only a few seconds to change slides to a picture of a woman, or else he'd get zapped.)

If our little idea here is successful and those involved are good tenants, property owners might look for us whenever they have vacancies to fill, which would only increase our status.

And I thought everyone finally realized segregation wasn't such a good idea...

That can easily be done by college students.  College campuses often have houses for rent within walking distance.

That depends one the individual apartment complex you're in and the types of people there.  (e.g. I'm rarely bothered in my place.)

I would imagine that there would be quite a few participants who just want to be left alone.  But there would also be some who want to be social and need some like-minded people to socialize with (albeit with the alternate skill set I mentioned earlier).  For that reason, it would have to be near places where they can meet.  (e.g. a coffee shop within walking distance)