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Re:Autism and Evolution by wpietri on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:56PM (#12584577)
I like this.

Personally, I am not big on better/worse, but just different. E.g., we could look at white people as a weird mutation of true humans, one shockingly prone to skin cancer. Of course, as a white person, I'd rather see myself as an equally valid kind of human.

For a while I've been wondering what the DSM would look like if non-neurotypical people were in the majority. If we had a diganostic category for what we now call "normal" levels of sociality, selfishness, manipulation, violence, etc.

Re:Autism and Evolution by nickpsecurity on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:12AM (#12587387)
"For a while I've been wondering what the DSM would look like if non-neurotypical people were in the majority. If we had a diganostic category for what we now call "normal" levels of sociality, selfishness, manipulation, violence, etc."

Interestingly, I think a good chunk of the diagnosis would be the autistic equivalent of what normal people call psychopaths. They'd be seen as irrational and dangerous, esp in groups.