Note that while autism diagnoses have increased, symptoms have been relatively constant since the early90s in Swedenhttp://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1961 …
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Replying to @AmirSariaslan @EvolutionistXX
Modern society that requires social skills above skills washes out people on the spectrum who used to be functional in previous generations.
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Replying to @GiovanniDannato @AmirSariaslan
I blame feminists and HR departments.
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More seriously, I come from a long line of ppl who could be diagnosed ASD if they went to a doctor and tried hard enough
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but weren't because ASD wasn't a thing ppl cared about during the Depression--they cared far more about food.
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Replying to @EvolutionistXX @AmirSariaslan
When you just have to focus on how to get things done, might be a positive trait. Like obese, asds victims of relative modern abundance?
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Replying to @GiovanniDannato @AmirSariaslan
We didn't always have cheap books and internet. Ppl had to memorize tons of data to survive. Modern data is abundant like modern food.
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Same abilities help us navigate, interpret, synthesize info that most now find overwhelming.
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