For those interested, for the last three years I've been working on a book/theory on why individual differences in minds evolved. We've been assuming disease wherever people's minds don't meet modern expectations, ignorant of the abilities which accompany disabilities.
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The evidence makes more sense if many of these common lifelong disorders arent diseases at all, but are evolved cognitive specialisations which don't fit easily into the modern world. Autism, ADHD, dyslexia and others show these signs.
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Why would diseases give special abilities in certain areas? Why would they be so common and genetic? Why have we endlessly failed to find the assumed breakages in the brain? The Specialised Mind will lay out the evidence and theory to explain why these disorders really exist.
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This form of autism is what people are referring to when they speak of wanting a cure.pic.twitter.com/w3dNaiTakm
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I feel for you. The label is not based on scientific principles, and the classification is too wide to allow sincere discussion of 'autism' as a single thing. I appreciate your desire to get that known. I do know. My book will hopefully change that and clarify the spectrum.
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Yep. Same as how folks use technology designed by a trans woman to spread lies and hate about trans women.
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In the case of autism it's even more ironic, because autism predisposes us to certain skills such as inventing computer technology
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Yeah autistic person here. I'd take a cure any day of the week. It's a disability, and I've worked bloody hard to overcome it, so don't give me bullcrap about how autism makes us special. It doesn't
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I do think it’s part of what makes me special. I have the ability to hyper focus and work tirelessly and meticulously on something if I have a particular interest in it, and understand it better than anybody. I don’t need or want to be “cured.”
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Tweet je nedostupan.
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PSA: *affects
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