rdos wrote:
Kosmonaut wrote:
Not only because there are no such societies (which i know of, other than the fabled aspergia), but surely autistic individuals are already included in the societies studied for the human universal list.
No, they are not. It is very obvious that the people that compiled this list haven't been studying autistics because if they had some of the "universals" would not be there. These people instead ignore the autistic differences because they think we are diseased.
These people cannot possibly have ignored autistic difference because they have not defined it.
They are looking at properties of tribes of people not individuals.
Individual difference is irrelevant to this study.
They haven't studied "autistic tribes", e.g. autistic gatherings or autistic on the playground interacting with other autistics. The autistic population is just as valid as a group for study as any other tribe that have in fact been studied.
02 Apr 2007, 1:11 am
