Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[DavidCroquet]

Anyway, the groomer got called out:

You probably mean well, but I know people with autistic kids - my brother included - who would find this extremely offensive.

As I'm sure you know, autism is a wide spectrum. I know that it can be debilitating and it can be a significant challenge for parents in certain cases, but I also know plenty of autistic people who make positive contributions to society. I know parents that wouldn't change a single thing about their autistic child, and parents that would.

What I was trying to get in my post is that I believe diversity of neurotypes is beneficial to a society. Neuro diverse people might offer solutions to problems that another group only containing one neurotype wouldn't come up with, and everyone in the more diverse group benefits from that solution no matter their neurotype.

It can be beneficial in a certain environment to being small or tall, evolutionarily speaking. If someone can reach higher fruits, or sneak into smaller spaces to retrieve resources, the whole community can benefit from that... but at a point being too small or too tall becomes a disability to that individual. If an environment is selecting for 'tall' you're going to get more individuals that are *too* tall than in an environment that doesn't. But if there's another community in the same environment who aren't likely to produce tall individuals, they're going to be out competed.

I apologize if any of this is coming over as too clinical or academic. I love a wide number of neurodiverse people who see their diversity as a net positive, and I agree with them. I recognize that many people don't feel that way too. But as to the question of how evolution drove us to where we are, I think nature does indeed select for diversity of neurotypes, even if that leads to some members of the community where the difference in how their brain works offers little to that community and is a challenge for that individual and their family.

Me, an ultra progressive identitarian leftist: "survival of the fittest, steal from competing tribes, compete for finite resources, tall man gets highest orange, dominant phenotypes, nature red in tooth and claw."