I definitely think it’s healthier to view people as just belonging to different groups as opposed to viewing people as either ‘normal’ or ‘not normal’. In any case there are so many different ways of defining normal, who even knows what normal is?
Most names for things or conditions are first coined by an authority-whether that be in terms of numbers of those using it or by the professional standing of the person who put it forward-obviously this is not always the case but I cannot see society as a whole accepting a label invented by a person who is most definitely in a minority-it would only invite derision. I do not choose to be judgmental over this but I can't help feeling that it's rather silly and frankly-irritating.
The word 'Autistic' didn't exist until Eugen Bleuler started using it in around 1911... similarly 'Allistic' didn't exist until the Autistic community started using it in parody in the early 2000's...
Can't help thinking that this whole thread is somewhat pointless and is just a pace where some of us expound on our wackier theories.For a start there is no such word as Omatistic-I've looked it up, we all might just as well be trying to work out just how culpable Santa is for our condition.
...YES !
(Those who enforce it ( - the "Rich" - ), can escape it, from time to time; and so they can then dismiss it, And can carry on enforcing it.)
Yep, specificity of terms is important... so I guess more:
"Human physiology and psychology unable to have adapted sufficiently to the environmental impact of the 'modern' world?"
Chemicals, food additives, noise and light pollution, cramming more people together into a space than the human psyche is adapted for...
Speed of change, speed of communication, speed of everything also means additional cognitive stresses...
No wonder not everyone can cope...
To "Neekby", Thanks for a Reply. (Finally I get to try to discuss this at another living person? Ho Boy...)
With regards to your first paragraph, then Yes, mostly, YET everyone is different and so that is not so clear a SignPost as it may be. I Myself have Asthma and certain Food Allergies, so I am not unsympathetic to those conditions... I use them as Compasses to guide Me through what is good or bad for Myself in this City... but as I say, it is different for everyone.
Your second paragraph is the Main matter, here.
It's 'human nature' signalling it's disapproval at having to exist in the 'inhumane' modern 'civilized' world?
...Alas..."Human nature" can include Humans who want Nature, and others who want a certain type of "Progress" - i.e. more Humans rather than more of anything else anywhere ever. (e.g. bigger Cities.) Deforestation and Cities are seen as Progress, in some "Human Nature", so I Myself would not put these two terms together.
..."Inhumane Modern Civilized World" is also fraught with misinterpretation. "Inhumane" can mean cruel or in favour of Humans over anything else. "Modern" can just seen as "progress". "Civilisation" can exist even inside a Jungle, but nowadays usually means Cities and Humans in the majority.
It's 'human nature' signalling it's disapproval at having to exist in the 'inhumane' modern 'civilized' world?
In short, I identify with the idea behind this, yet I would never express it grouping those particular words/terms. (!) In short, I rather meant 'Nature disapproving of existing in a City' (Plastics and Cement, mostly.)... This is already evident and I should not need to give reasons to prove it. (E.g. - Jungles and Cities cannot not exist upon the *exact* same spot.)
Thank You Kindly for giving Me the invitation to attempt discussion so far, certainly.
So are you suggesting that the 'psychological sensitivity' to 'civilisation' is very much in the same sort of ballpark as the increase in 'physical sensitivities' such as asthma, food allergies etc.?
It's 'human nature' signalling it's disapproval at having to exist in the 'inhumane' modern 'civilized' world?
...To confess, I am not sure why this Thread has gone off at the (long post) tangent which it has, discussing "evolution" and all... but this next is something which I recently posted upon another Thread which has as yet gained no reactions. Perhaps it might do so here. (Upon yet another unrelated Thread?)
" ...This is my main attempt at a reply. Nature indeed wires brains to be different. The problem is that most of us are not living in "Nature", but that we are (likely) forced to live in an Un-natural environment. This means Cities, cement, tarmacadam, carbonizing-radiation... all of that.
Yet although cities pretend that they are self-sufficient, they do get thier food and air and water from Nature. Thus Nature carries on, while "Civilisation" ignores Nature but actually cannot thrive without it. I hope this makes sense so far.
Back to Autism and Brains being wired differently... this - to Me anyway - explains a lot of different "autistic traits", such as sensitivity to excessive noise, smells, tastes, touches, and so forth. It is too much to detail in this already long Post. And, most of all, I can only wait to recieve understanding as to what I try to say here. "
End of my previous Post. AGAIN. (...)
Evolution and natural Selection can only work on actual Genes, as far as I am aware there are no Genes for the condition, those of us with Autism have a "Disorder", some damage has occurred ( perhaps in my case, the Autism could have resulted from my having been Cyanotic (Blue in Colour due to Oxygen deprivation during birth) or it could have been as a result of "errors" in the way that our Neurons were coded to wire up with eachother. Whatever, I believe that we have been damaged in some way but it's not all bad.
Perhaps god did not confuse the language spoken by the people who tried to build the Tower Of Babel, perhaps he just made the loudest ones Autistic!
https://emmashopebook.com/2013/02/11/the-signs-of-neurotypical-spectrum-disorder/
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Neurotypical_syndrome
https://www.psychforums.com/asperger-syndrome/topic60962.html
http://www.thestonkingsteps.com/thoughts-on-autism/neurotypical-syndrome-a-live-long-disorder/
http://erikengdahl.se/autism/isnt/index.html
...There are also many Threads with Posts discussing it in this here NAS Forum:
Replying to myself... I've been pointed to this: https://blogs.psychcentral.com/aspie/2018/09/allism-spectrum-disorders-a-parody/
LOLZ!