neilson_wheels wrote:
BritAspie wrote:
I'm not saying we're vampires but the description of the "Vampire" brain functions could be found in Aspergers and other forms of High functioning Autism give me your two cents on that theory.
Maybe someone used Autistic brain functions as a basis for a fictional theory about vampires?
That was my thought, that the author had read a bit about the Spectrum and thought "Hey - maybe I can use that to explain why vampires..."
Still, a neurological dysfunction does not go nearly far enough to explain behavior that extreme. That would be well into mental illness territory.
Besides, if it could be explained by a random genetic mutation causing a slight alteration in brain processing (affecting perception, but only indirectly affecting behavior and unlikely to fabricate serial killers in any case), it would pop up often enough that it wouldn't be considered mythological. Of course, some people still consider Asperger Syndrome to be mythological.