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This is the mad thing, autism and ADHD must have an advantage otherwise it wouldn't be showing up in people today, and also if humans have selectively bred herding dogs for hyper focus, being less socially inclined etc these are useful/desirable qualities (and hereditary too, fuck Andrew Wakefield for the MMR nonsense)
Whenever I go out into the countryside or even just a park, if there's an interesting bug/beetle hidden in the grass I'll find it. I can scan for visual differences very quickly (colour, texture, shiny surface, movement, a faint noise out of place) these things would have been useful from a hunter gatherer point of view....it's just a massive shame that the modern world is not made for autistic/ADHD people
Sorry for any word salad, but this is a topic (special interest, no less) that really interests me, and thanks for the information!
you want mentats? that's how we get mentats.
I had to look this up, I had no idea what mentats are.
I only wish that my autism presented like this, I'd love a super memory. I can remember that I've read something once long ago, but it's vague, and also my maths is appalling....I do love that autism is a spectrum and that we're all unique in our presentation