Tolerance and support for autists is key to future technological societies. Balanced people are no longer capable of pushing the state of the art, at least in significant numbers. Technology is just too complicated now for people with normal lives and thought processes to catch up to the edge of it, much less make major advancements. Technology is rapidly approaching the point where the state of the art can only be advanced by exceptional people who have focused exclusively on a narrow specialization for their entire life, with no allowance for intellectual distractions like second languages, liberal arts education, or technical hobbies. This point represents an asymptotic limit to human technological development.

To be clear, I don't mean literal clinical autism. We're talking about internet autism here. Maybe these people are actually on the spectrum, maybe not, maybe the whole concept of "the spectrum" is complete horseshit. Who knows? The people in question are eccentric and highly intelligent, to the point were they struggle to fit in to normal society, regardless of exactly why that is.

Autists have little tolerance for what they consider to be nonsense. Autists don't care what you think about it. Autists don't care about the consequences of them not playing along with your little social games; "your loss" in their mind. (And they're right about that.) Autists often don't even realize what the social conventions are in the first place. Autists will call a spade a spade and will say there are five lights or whatever the Star Trek thing is, and they'll explain things through obscure nerdy references and expect you to understand.

And you have to suck it up and deal with it. Because you desperately need the autists, else you will fall behind in technology. You might even fall back to a pre-industrial state. There is no longer the option to fall back from the technological age into the industrial age. You can't buy the old machines because nobody makes them anymore. You can't export industrial-age goods because they will cost far more than better goods created by technolized countries. You can't even maintain an industrial age civilization in isolation without going full North Korea because the people smart enough to use a slide rule will flee to countries that have computers. Your options will be computer age or stone age; Japan or Nigeria. Countries in between are merely still in transition.

But what about Latin America? Surely they have some sort of stable state in between? Nope. Latin America just moves slowly. Manana, manana. They'll get there eventually. Mexico is slowly becomming Japan. Brazil is slowly becomming Nigeria.

Countries that want to brain drain other places must accommodate the culture of their targets. After all, beggars cannot be choosers. Cultures are blind to their own weaknesses; Russia thinks that crushing papers-please bureaucracy is fine; Vietnam thinks that not blindly correctly guessing a person's age and status relative to you is a serious insult; Mexico thinks that being hours late is completely normal; Thailand thinks that outright scamming foreigners is just how business works; America thinks that every problem can be solved by passing more intrusive regulations.

Normal people can adapt, somewhat, to a new culture. Autists can't, by definition. They need their security blankets, their comfort food, and their accustomed living conditions. They also can't be subjected to bureaucracy too terribly different from their home country, or much bureaucracy at all for that matter since they probably didn't handle it very well at home either. They need the power and internet to stay on 24/7/365 without exception or blips. They need the tap water to be drinkable, not that they are going to drink it per se, but so they don't have to worry about which tasks can or can't safely be done with tap water. They need air conditioning and heating everywhere; nobody can think straight when dripping in sweat or shivering. They need the food supply to be sanitary, including especially the meat supply, because getting food poisoning is bad and having to constantly be paranoid about it is even more mentally burdensome.

Your culture also cannot be a "negotiating" culture. The price needs to be the price and it should be openly labelled. Autists can't handle hard negotiation. Autists feel awful when they have to interact with Persian Rug Salesmen. Autists will go to great lengths to avoid salesmen if at all possible, including not moving to your country.

Some autists need to own things. They have a tick in their head where they are only comfortable when they legally own their dwelling and the everyday items around them. They can't stand living in a hotel or even a rental. As such, your country must allow foreigners to own property without difficulty. This doesn't mean you have to sell all your farmland and stock market to China, but it does mean that it needs to be trivial for a regular person to buy a regular house or condo, and also to file and run a completely self-owned small corporation. You're allowed to disagree with me on this, and the critically important autists are allowed to not come to your country because you're a stickler over definitions, as if people "owning" property means anything to the goverment. Some countries will technologically regress in the coming century.

On top of this all, autists and their awkwardness need to be socially tolerated by everyday people. Your culture cannot have complicated, strictly enforced social rules with no leeway for eccentric people. Screwing up a simple greeting, even intentionally, cannot be cause for drama or social consequences. Cultures often have irrational social customs, which is fine in general, but noncompliance with those customs by autists must be quietly and graciously accepted if you want to keep your servers running in fifty years.

Autism is the Future