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If Most People Were Autistic, Would Non-autistic Introverts Have the Most Power?
A response to Kirsty Kendall’s article “What If Autistic People Were the Majority?”
Kirsty Kendall recently wrote a wonderful article:
Please read that before you continue reading here. It’s only a 4-minute read.
It fantasizes about what it would be like if most people were autistic. Anyone who’s not autistic would be given a medical diagnosis of “Hypersocial Disorder”. These people would have an unusual need for social interaction. They would also be considered savants who have a superhuman ability to read people’s facial expressions and body language.
This is a genius concept, and it just goes to show how the idea of “normal” really just means how common something is. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the ideal way to be.
It raises an interesting question: what if being a bit autistic is a better way for humans to be?
