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?

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    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.

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

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        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.

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          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.