Why so many autistics exist now, why a Baby Boom, etc.

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I went on a long drive today, and I started thinking. First thought was that maybe 60 million people died in World War 2, and about 60 million Baby Boomers were born after the war. The war generation was one of the least selfish generations in history, with millions willingly (and millions not so willingly) dying before their time to save the world. In contrast, the Boomers were the most selfish generation ever. Could the Boomers be the reincarnations of all those who died during the war? With all those who had their lives cut short early, they had to be reincarnated to balance things out.

Now here is the second thought I had. In the wake of the selfish Boomers, the world is concerned solely about money and status. So, the perfect solution would be for millions of people to be born who don't care about money or status or material things or any of the normal "NT" preoccupations. Thus the spike in autistic births! There are so many autistic people now, that conceivably when we all reach 30 or so (the main bulk of the autists, who are now in HS) that the NT world will have to change to suit US rather than US changing to suit NTs. The NTs will be FORCED to become less selfish and materialistic, or face an aspie rebellion, due to millions of aspies not being able to find work or live independently otherwise.

And this sort of forced resacralization of the world will save humanity, because otherwise we'd kill each other off until there was nobody left. So, even though we may not be starchildren from the Pleiades (did you know that the name for the Pleiades in Japanese is "Subaru"? Funny!) we were truly put here to save the world. And all because, 100 years ago, Europe went to war, which caused Europe to go to war again, which forced the rebirth of the war dead, which forced the birth of millions of aspies because the reborn war dead were enjoying themselves. Whew!

Actually I think it was due to Shakespeare.

I don't think it's that there are more Aspies now than there were fifty years ago; I think it's that there are more people diagnosed with Asperger's now than fifty years ago when nobody knew anything about autism. I'm sure there were plenty of Aspies fifty years ago, there just weren't as many diagnosed.

No, no, definately Shakespeare.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The number of aspies diagnosed depends on (1) the definition of the condition and (2) the means of examining people for the condition.

ruveyn

There are some fun ideas there, pezar, and I enjoyed reading that, but I think it's a bit far fetched. Still, you might have the germ of a half decent sci-fi novel.

Aspirin need I. Opening post to read tried I.

I am presuming that a post so lacking any form of critical analysis and filled from start to finish in foolish thought, is meant to be taken as sarcasm. If not please keep whatever it is you are smoking to yourself, and no matter how much Orwell pesters you dont give him any.

I found your post funny and I wish it was true. It's very silly, but I enjoyed reading it.

I think the NT world will never get 'us' or adapt to us. It'll always have to be the other way round. I think society does go through periods of greater materialism and lesser materialism, though - but that more because of economic and political factors than anything else.

This thread is killing me

This type of free-association brain thing is how I keep from going insane, since I have no job or girlfriend (really not surprising that I have no gf, as women tend to like employed men) and live with my parents (see above). It may sound stupid, but it keeps me on my toes.