I would imagine most societies would look sort of like Germany or Japan, but the real question is which widespread social norms are directly or indirectly caused by endemic and widespread Neurotypical Disorder, as well as what those social norms would be replaced by

For example, I would expect the attached poster to not exist for various obvious reasons. But how do you think an autistic society would handle the indication of listening/attentiveness?

  • pogosort@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I think one of the largest changes would be an overall decrease in economic productivity. Society would shift away from capitalism as many concepts would either be unintuitive to us or aren’t possible to uphold with our overall capacity. In practice this would likely mean a reduction or outright elimination of full-time work, which is replaced with alternative options like WFH or the four-day work week. This may impact the open hours of stores but there is a possibility that improved work conditions may mitigate that.

    Assuming that this is a society of mostly autistic people from the start rather than a gradual replacement of neurotypical people, it might actually have better outcomes for autistic people as the stigma created by neurotypical people wouldn’t exist. Or it would be significantly decreased.

    • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      There is a fair bunch autistic people whose whole identity is their job and will gladly exploit themselves. If workplaces were adapted for people on the spectrum, this would probably be far more common, which would in turn reduce the tendency for autistic people to align with antiwork philosophies.

      • pogosort@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t encourage autistic people to exploit themselves and be exploited, especially as many can suffer from autistic fatigue and burnout.

        • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I mean, sure, but the OP isn’t about what kind of society would we choose to build, but about how we think things would have developed.

          • pogosort@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            There would still be conflict relating to that as there are many autistic people who have the reduced capacity to work or outright cannot work at all.