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Anyone know of any interesting resources about autistic/neurodiverse intentional communities or cohousing? And how do we feel about this movement? (kbin.social)
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On a quick search, I found this Forbes article and this article from Autism Housing Network. The Autism Housing Network appears to be a treasure trove of resources about this very interesting idea in general.

However, I'm honestly still a bit skeptical to the movement for autistic intentional communities as it stands. I found out about this movement earlier today, when I correctly figured while writing an essay that somebody else had probably already come up with that exact idea. However, while the extant communities are improving people's lives, they don't really seem like the sort of radically by-of-and-for-us type of neurodiverse communes that I was imagining while writing my essay. Rather, these extant communities feel like a sort of more status-quo-y liberal housing development with a neurodiverse flavor.

In my essay I had even written about all sorts of pipe dreams of cybernetics and e-democracy to connect different intentional communities together, but I guess that's all it is: pipe dreams.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The idea of intentional communities for nd folk popped into my head a few days ago on occasion of visiting my very nd brother and kid. We understand each other' quirks, but I don't think we'd manage living together.

The intentional community I did live in as a rebellious youngster had probably a majority of nd folk and was often having conflicty situations, but non of us were diagnosed or aware. Maybe if we had been aware we could have done better? Anyway even with all its imperfections the place was life-saving for me - I was permitted to exist as myself, didn't have to act normal.