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28 Mar 2011, 2:17 pm

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I see your walk wasn't so effective. Did you try the cookie? If you don't like cookies, simply help yourself to some other little treat that you enjoy.

Patronizing people for the only goal of making them angry and obtain a reaction is a ridiculous attitude. Desist.


Sounds like Gideon might not be the only one who needs a cookie!

MH no what I'm in need of right now belongs in the adult forum, hence the attitude...but thanks for your kind offer!



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28 Mar 2011, 2:21 pm

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You may be an aspie if you can somehow get a tack stuck in your hand while cleaning out a desk drawer, and not notice it until someone else points it out a few minutes later. Such a superpower would come wonderfully in hand in a world without antibiotics, hygiene, and full of sharp pointy objects.


Reminds me of a time I stepped on a board with a nail sticking up - went right through my foot, and I didn't notice.

Good thing I'd had my tetanus shot.



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28 Mar 2011, 3:22 pm

I've been thinking about this some more, and something came to my mind. Think of what the advancement of technology has brought us. Today, most people spend just as much, if not more time texting each other than they actually do talking face to face. I have noticed that quite a few people have a problem with this. I know I do not, and I'm sure many of you here would agree with me on that. I think maybe being autistic is an evolutionary jump. In 20 years from now, will we even need communicational skills? Probably to some extent yes, but nowhere near quite like it is today.



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28 Mar 2011, 3:39 pm

Gideon,

If NT is so maladaptive how is it that the process of evolution has brought us to a point where NT is 99% of the population?


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28 Mar 2011, 3:55 pm

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I've been thinking about this some more, and something came to my mind. Think of what the advancement of technology has brought us. Today, most people spend just as much, if not more time texting each other than they actually do talking face to face. I have noticed that quite a few people have a problem with this. I know I do not, and I'm sure many of you here would agree with me on that. I think maybe being autistic is an evolutionary jump. In 20 years from now, will we even need communicational skills? Probably to some extent yes, but nowhere near quite like it is today.


Yes. In 20 years from now we will still need communication skills. Most people don't spend just as much time texting as talking. They spend more time texting than they did before texting was invented. But texting hasn't replaced talking and never will. The urge to say things out loud does not go away just because writing exists.



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28 Mar 2011, 4:34 pm

Uh... Me thinks Gideon is troll'n.... :roll:



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28 Mar 2011, 4:39 pm

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In the future will aspies become the dominant type of people or will NTs always be the most common type of people?

In my opinion its unlikely that NTs will be become more rare because in about 100 years from now aspergers may become extinct since they might find a cure for autisim and AS so it will only be NTs ruling the planet eventually. Then again though they always need people with AS to invent things so it would be there loss if they killed us off :(


Perhaps neither. Given sufficient isolation, in this case social isolation, we may get two species of human beings who do not habitually cross mate. By numbers. I suspect the NTs will be in the majority for the foreseeable future.

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28 Mar 2011, 8:18 pm

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If NT is so maladaptive how is it that the process of evolution has brought us to a point where NT is 99% of the population?


If you would bother to read what I wrote I never said NTs were maladaptive in fact I said NTs were differently adapted. NTs are 99% of the population (I would actually dispute that number) because they are more social than people with AS thus more prone to breed. The fact that As still exists at all is a testament to how successful a evolutionary strategy it is.



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28 Mar 2011, 8:24 pm

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If NT is so maladaptive how is it that the process of evolution has brought us to a point where NT is 99% of the population?


If you would bother to read what I wrote I never said NTs were maladaptive in fact I said NTs were differently adapted. NTs are 99% of the population (I would actually dispute that number) because they are more social than people with AS thus more prone to breed. The fact that As still exists at all is a testament to how successful a evolutionary strategy it is.


You're amazing. Are you sure you're not schizophrenic instead of AS?


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28 Mar 2011, 8:26 pm

ruveyn wrote:
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In the future will aspies become the dominant type of people or will NTs always be the most common type of people?

In my opinion its unlikely that NTs will be become more rare because in about 100 years from now aspergers may become extinct since they might find a cure for autisim and AS so it will only be NTs ruling the planet eventually. Then again though they always need people with AS to invent things so it would be there loss if they killed us off :(


Perhaps neither. Given sufficient isolation, in this case social isolation, we may get two species of human beings who do not habitually cross mate. By numbers. I suspect the NTs will be in the majority for the foreseeable future.

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The situation as it stands is that we may already have the expression of two or more different species of human sharing a common genome.



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28 Mar 2011, 8:28 pm

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Gideon,

If NT is so maladaptive how is it that the process of evolution has brought us to a point where NT is 99% of the population?


If you would bother to read what I wrote I never said NTs were maladaptive in fact I said NTs were differently adapted. NTs are 99% of the population (I would actually dispute that number) because they are more social than people with AS thus more prone to breed. The fact that As still exists at all is a testament to how successful a evolutionary strategy it is.


You're amazing. Are you sure you're not schizophrenic instead of AS?


Are you sure you don't have some mental deficiency? Maybe just a reading comprehension problem?



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28 Mar 2011, 8:31 pm

Gideon wrote:
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Gideon,

If NT is so maladaptive how is it that the process of evolution has brought us to a point where NT is 99% of the population?


If you would bother to read what I wrote I never said NTs were maladaptive in fact I said NTs were differently adapted. NTs are 99% of the population (I would actually dispute that number) because they are more social than people with AS thus more prone to breed. The fact that As still exists at all is a testament to how successful a evolutionary strategy it is.


You're amazing. Are you sure you're not schizophrenic instead of AS?


Are you sure you don't have some mental deficiency? Maybe just a reading comprehension problem?


Woo hoo. You took the bait. Now let's see if I can reel you in. I hope you put up a good fight. I hate it when trolls wimp out.

Shall we proceed with a string of minor insults and slowly escalate or should we go for the jugular?


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28 Mar 2011, 8:34 pm

I'm just waiting on you to quote me and prove I said what you suggested? As to insults anyone reading this thread will realize you have a reading comprehension problem. I just pointed it out.



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28 Mar 2011, 8:35 pm

Still waiting.



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28 Mar 2011, 8:37 pm

<Hands Gideon a shovel. That hole's obviously not deep enough yet.>


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28 Mar 2011, 8:38 pm

The hole where you don't prove anything and basically continue to call people with AS diseased and in need of curing. Oh that's right you called people with AS broken. That was your word. BROKEN.

You are on the wrong forum they are paging you over at autism speaks.