Do you think it will be Aspies who find cures for cancers?

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With so many Aspies having interest in scientific fields, do you think there is going to be someone on the spectrum who will find a cure for cancer? Maybe first cure? I know there are treatments such as chemotherapy for breast cancer and leukemia which have high rates of success, but people are still fighting for cures.

A gay midget satanist might also cure cancer.

AS is not required for success in science, and the few scientists I have met during my career who I suspected had AS were not particularly noteworthy in their accomplishments compared to their NT peers.

Some days, I'd say yes. Other days, I'd be cynical and say no.

Even if the Aspie was the one to finally make that huge discovery, I can't help but wonder if someone else wouldn't take credit for it.

From a purely statistical point of view, it is more likely that an NT scientist will be the one. There's more NT scientists than Aspie ones and there is nothing special about Aspie scientists that puts them ahead. They're all freakin' smart.

I'm working on it, so maybe.

Odd as it sounds, finding a cure for cancer would kill a lot of people as it would remove a restraint on an already too large world population. It's not in the interest of human beings that there be too many of them.

Unless we start populating other planets.

Autistics are geniuses so finding a cure for cancer is no problem as long as the Neurotypical people let them.

I'd say that we're more likely to cure cancer before we colonise another planet.

I think it could be anyone who finds the cure for cancer, but I think it would more likely be an NT. However, I definately think that someone with AS may be just as capable.

I doubt there will be any one person who finds a cure for cancer. Modern medical advances tend to be the result of the work of many people. The neurology of any of these people is impossible to predict beyond that they will be intelligent. I think the most likely is that people with various neurologies will have a hand in cancer's eventual cure. It is entirely possible that one or more of these people will be on the autism spectrum but it is statistically unlikely that all of them will be.

Haven't you heard? Cannabinoids Cures Cancer.

It's not about intelligence or thinking outside the box, it's about politics.

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