I mean, broadly speaking, that’s not how structure works. You can, at best, get the illusion of choice between Structure Coke and Structure Pepsi. But the point of a structured system is that it remains uniform enough for easy access and integration. If it’s got a thousand little exceptions and carve-outs, it’s not a structured system at all.
“I should get to choose how I live” works right up until your lifestyle bumps up against someone else’s. And then you need to find common ground or compromise.
The problem autistic people face is the overwhelming structural bias that works against them. They’re largely excluded from the planning of physical and social systems that they need to take part in as a predicate for survival. But “I should just be allowed to opt-out” isn’t a real solution when it means demanding everyone you interface with opt-in to your bespoke set of rules.
This ends in segregation, not social choice.
Large pools of activists and advocates working together to fashion a society that is broadly accommodating to the population as a whole is the path forward. Individualism and atomization is just a social divide-and-conquer strategy that pits special interest groups against one another for common pools of resources.
I mean, broadly speaking, that’s not how structure works. You can, at best, get the illusion of choice between Structure Coke and Structure Pepsi. But the point of a structured system is that it remains uniform enough for easy access and integration. If it’s got a thousand little exceptions and carve-outs, it’s not a structured system at all.
“I should get to choose how I live” works right up until your lifestyle bumps up against someone else’s. And then you need to find common ground or compromise.
The problem autistic people face is the overwhelming structural bias that works against them. They’re largely excluded from the planning of physical and social systems that they need to take part in as a predicate for survival. But “I should just be allowed to opt-out” isn’t a real solution when it means demanding everyone you interface with opt-in to your bespoke set of rules.
This ends in segregation, not social choice.
Large pools of activists and advocates working together to fashion a society that is broadly accommodating to the population as a whole is the path forward. Individualism and atomization is just a social divide-and-conquer strategy that pits special interest groups against one another for common pools of resources.