Before there were trains, there were the ships.

Its still so upsetting that they send him to the doctor who was like, “that thing that makes you happy and does not hurt anyone”, lets help you stop doing that.

I immediately thought of this, and you beat me to it. Honestly it seems to be a very nuanced account of autism. It's certainly unusual but bro got great joy from watching ships and people only found it a bit odd.

Well, if autism exists in animals (pretty sure i've heard that it does) i bet there are savants especially talented at communicating with humans.

I read "hoarder" and everything made a lot of sense, but felt wrong.

Some people are broken. They’re the narcissists and psychopaths and people who refuse to address their trauma(having trauma is fine, doing nothing about it and making it everyone else’s problem is less so) who we keep handing power to for some fucking reason.

Yeah, prehistoric life is sometimes portrayed as simplistic, skipping the fact that hunter-gatherers knew the landscape and all plants, grasses and animals for kilometres around. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel ‘Shaman’ does a decent job of depicting what life in those times might've been like.

Granted, I instead memorize my city's streets and organization of my computer stuff.

"Was that rock always there, or was it disturbed by a predator?"
"Hmm. That rock I remember, rough sandstone, 25 sides, angled south-east. I'm unsure of its neighbour though with rough sandstone, 25 sides, angled south-south-east."

Ah, I too saved this picture

and in the times you must speak to a human, it's someone who's coming to you deeply interested in your big tree diagram of reindeer

What?! It gets lonely herding reindeer!

Gynecology is part of medicine so it's already included!

Rein Man