Anonymous #1 5d

For example, there’s a theory that people with ADHD tend to have so many issues with sleep, and tend to be night owls, because they were the ones tasked with watching over other people at night, pre-civilization. Basically tending to the fire, watching for predators, etc. so constantly waking up and preferring to sleep later were advantageous for that purpose

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Anonymous #1 5d

For autism, my personal theory is that special interests were a way for one person to hold an encyclopedia of knowledge about which fruits, mushrooms, and other plants were safe or unsafe, and other things of that nature. I also wonder if the inability to empathize like others had something to do with staying level headed through deaths and other sad incidents.

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Anonymous #1 5d

I think you are onto something very misunderstood and not well elaborated on. Personally, I am a bit scared that the modern world is moving away from needing those human traits that neurodivergence brings. Idk. I feel like being autistic is like being a species whose habitat was destroyed by climate change. Like the world I was meant for no longer exists. My advice, frame us as humanly useful, and not as much economically useful. To desire to be a part of a system we are not designed for is a

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Anonymous OP 5d

Trap

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Anonymous OP 5d

Absolutely. I’m not a fan of viewing human beings as capital resources, so it would be from the perspective of why we and others are so valuable to society, even if our primitive functions aren’t objectively useful now. If not for us, we might not have had the survivalism necessary to evolve as a species as much as we have.

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Anonymous #2 5d

I like this, where do you get it from

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