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AS has survived a few million years of natural selection I dont think the planet reaching critical population mass will make us extinct

I suspect that aspergers as we know it may be a fairly recent phenomenon. Anybody please correct any factual errors I make.

No hard facts are available, but it seems that the geographic overrepresentation of asperger's is not biased just toward europe, but far northern europe, this including the idea that far northern europeans, contributed considerable DNA to the British isles and therefore to the countries they colonized.

If this is correct, what would it mean? The last major glaciation ended around ten thousand years ago. I'm assuming that during the height of the glaciation, far northern europe was covered with thousands of feet - ok, metres - of ice, and that nobody could possibly have been living there.

Unless there's something I missed, it seems likely that as the ice receded, the land area of europe became available for human habitation from south to north, with scandinavia being the last place to be populated. This means that the modern people of scandinavia, who may be the aspie seed population, could not have been in scandinavia all that long.

I realize there are aspies who have no obvious genetic connection to scandinavia.

If Asperger's is a step in human evolution, I am glad to see it!

I just skipped a lot of these posts, I'm too young to start going into this sort of stuff. However, I wonder what life was like for someone with AS in the stone age? Not much social stuff to stuff up except the way you said 'Ug' and how you positioned your monobrow!

Id think gesture and body language would have been more important than it is now.

Just because its nonverbal doesnt mean its not communication.

^Yes, I know that. That's why I put in the 'how you positioned your monobrow' part!

For Cherokee's first qoute reply, I recently did genetics in Science (despite the fact that it was infinitely boring), and I paid JUST enough attention to learn about reclusive genes. Basically, they hide away and don't show themselves up as often as dominant genes do, but every so often it shows up. It's a bit like throwing a dice; most of the time you'll get 1's to 5's, but sometimes you'll roll a 6. It's how you can get blondes in a completely red-head family without using hair-gel.

For the second qoute reply, I think so too. Remember that going back even as not so long ago as the 1950's, anybody who was different and/or had a rough time ended up on the street with absolutely nothing, and so the chances that anyone back then with AS would've wound up there and be ignored, neglected and rejected by all but the most compassionate people (who weren't commom back then), and this sort of thing would probably have existed ever since unfair reasoning was invented, which means that it goes back to the 1800's, 1700's, the 1600's, Medieval times, and even all the way back to the days of Ancient Rome and Egypt. I'd hate to think what life would've been like for Aspie's back then. I'll try not to think about it.