Published on 12, July, 2020
I know people are going to say go to groups where like minded people are but i never seem to find people or find a fault that just ruins it for me.
'When you seek, you rarely find.' There's a lot of truth to this statement. Whatever it is we are searching for becomes more difficult to find. It comes to us, usually, when we are not looking for it. Friendship and love are like tiny fragile birds. They are beautiful to behold when we hold them gently in our hands. But if we grip too tightly to hold on to them, we will kill them. You are very lucky if you can find one person in real life with whom you have a genuine affiliation, and the chances of finding them on the internet are worse. It's also true that people find you more interesting when you follow a passion, but will find you less interesting when your passion is finding someone who likes you.
Extremely depressing though. Humans are social creatures, designed to work and play together. WTF has happened to us?
I have to google your acronyms lol....I am so not hip to them lol. Oh, just got it....sheet hit the fan. I'm always so bad at these.
this is nonsense
I haven't heard that, I've heard more that homo sapiens just had sex with the other types of humans and bred them out. That is certainly what happened with Neanderthals as we all have their DNA but I don't know much about Denisovans.
And they were murdered homo sapiens in a brutal genocide. It seems to be a consistent MO for NT's... destroy or subjugate all difference.
I thought Denisovans were exclusively in the Asian region of the world?
I feel I solved this ages ago, I have the idea that autistic people have more neanderthal/denosovien DNA than modern humans as neanderthal did not die out but had the compulsive need to interbreed with modern humans who would give birth to humans that express certain neanderthal and modern human traits each in a certain degree.
I am willing to accept I am wrong.
That's probably true! Well said.
I suspect that back in the Stone Age, when everyone was sat around the fire endlessly discussing the day's mammoth hunt, the autistic was the one at the back of the cave working on an idea for a new spearhead. While also being driven to distraction by the constant chatter, obviously.
look up the "beaker" people who changed human skills rapidly but have never been found / identified
Maybe that's why humans are so bright, due to interaction with others?
Yes - communication and a good brain work wonders - but a large brain costs a lot calories to run - 20% of all our food - so that's why we're predators - we need high-octane food.
correct learning from others and other tribes
Yes. Humans are presumably still evolving...
Orangutans are interesting - the wild ones are incredibly dumb - they learn *just* enough to get by (solitary, lone parent and long childhoods) - no shared skills - but the ones in captivity are much brighter due to the enrichment of their environment and lots of interaction with keepers and watching the public.
I didn't know that about sickle cell, that's interesting!
Maybe one day autistic people will show some very useful trait and help the human race.
But what about orang utans, one of our closest relatives? They aren't social and have 99% the same DNA as us, but we are more social than them, we don't all live separately to each other like they do. There must be something keeping us together apart from hunting and raising young.
What about love? No one has been able to quantify what causes people to fall in love with specific people and stay together. Most animals don't fall in love.
Traits that are deleterious when fully expressed can be valuable in lesser quantities and can be selected for. The classic case, and genetically simple example, is sickle-cell trait. If inherited from one parent the allele gives significant protection from severe malaria, but when inherited from both parents the resulting homozygosity produces very serious illness. Autism is genetically far more complex, but the principle is identical. Traits that can produce people who function sub-optimally in society can at the same time be valuable on a species level, and be selected for. The best proof of this is that we are still around and constitute 2%+ of the total population.
WTF has happened to us?
we dont know yet.
Autism is still under research and involves up to 150 genes which makes the research very difficult
Also humans do not have natural selection applied to them much now, and have other forces applied like sexual selection, herd selection, and other new selection forces yet to be named. The Selfish gene theory still applies to humans.
This means the frequency of genes removed by Natural selection start to rise by random movement sometimes because they have no damper on them anymore.
right back to work for me gg
I'm not sure I'm on board with this whole autism is a superpower thing though. This may be going off in a tangent. Probably to do with my mood today. I think it's more likely that we're evolutionary mistakes... an evolutionary cul-de-sac, so to speak. But that's probably because I'm feeling bored and useless today.
Humans are social creatures,
No I don't agree - we are the most dangerous apex predators who learned how to hunt in packs and raise the young in groups for safety.
If the SHTF, it would be a bloodbath within days.