Can we still be considered of the human species?

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Just had to jump in here, In Spades...I don't think anyone can possibly quantify what AS people on this board, or anywhere, want or need. Everyone - without exception - needs other people in some way or other.

Neither do I think it's a psychological/subconscious issue as you estimate. The way an aspie brain functions is hardwired - it's physiological.

Psychologically, I may want relationships (and need them for the good of my emotional or mental health) but physiologically I just don't seem to have the exact right programs to get me there...

There's one branch of my family that is traced back an extremely long way. Most of them, particularly the males, are very well documented. There are little biographies of them in various forms and their doings and their characters. It's this line that I believe is the aspie one - some of the descriptions are incredibly AS. My point is that AS doesn't appear to be an 'advance' or evidence of evolution to anything superior or different in my family. Looking at the history, they've always been very eccentric- right from the year dot/when recording began.

I would suspect that Aspies and NT's also breed just as often as aspie+aspie so it would be difficult to evolve into a different species.

What exactly are the requirements for a new species?

Acually I would sya it is just a human variation not a sperate branch. All we really have are slower developing right brains.

Science came from Universities that were founded by religions. Hence, humans are not animals, but a special creation.

Human is a different species from apes, but how far is undetermined. Is a chimp/human breed possible? I have never heard of anyone trying, but there have been some unexpained and very smart apes, with nearer to human traits. I forget his name but there was one in the DNA era, in Florida, billed as a missing link, with middle DNA.

I think the story was his mother was raised in captivity, no one mentioned his father. So we could be a sub species of chimp.

As for Autism, larger brain, big head, more so in girls, is how we map our ancestors. The medical types say four to ten times as many boys than girls, but the Autism web sites have been counted to have more girls than boys. So girls pass unnoticed.

Bigger brains, long heads, did not happen to everyone overnight, it starts with one, but over thousands of years only big brained long heads were left. They were also fragile compared to the thicker skulled round heads, so males most likely had a low survival rate, but females passed, and long heads it is.

Autistic brains do seem to have an advantage in technology, and that is becoming more and more of life. Give it a few thousand years, and they may be the only survivors. Like others in our past, life became just too complex for them to keep up.

How many NT's have read all of Wikipedia, and then had to make corrections?

My chihuahua already knows that. She's so ferocious!

Perhaps this is what sets us apart.

I can't speak for everyone, but I know me personally, I'm very picky when it comes to what kind of people I seek as friends. There are many other people who I'll call my friend, but would probably be more appropriately titled as "acquaintances", or just "friends of friend", as I put it.

I know one of my major flaws in relationships is that I don't know the proper methods of sustaining them. I never take time out of my day to call my friends and ask what they're up to (small talk, bleh), or ask if they want to hang out. I always just expect them to take the initiative themselves and call me, especially since they're the ones who have the good ideas, not me. Perhaps this is what one means when they say we don't "seek" companionship?

As for not needing companionship, well...maybe...but I know having it makes me a whole heck of a lot less depressed.