Is Neurodiversity Possibly Evolution?

I completely agree, I also feel I'm not living to my full potential just I don't have the motivation. Ive always felt I don't belong. I'm 36 and recently been diagnosed but i did well academically with an IQ of 132. I do sense a lot more than NTs and read people intentions well which makes up for the lack of social skills and difficulties I have. But I don't have the same desire or requirement for friendship. I'm happy being on my own, gives me less anxiety and overthinking. I do have a gift for understanding technology and just know how things work without being taught. Can't explain it. I also have a really good immune system like never been ill since I was a child. Never had COVID or the jab. I like to think I'm part of evolution like new code it always has bug but always gets improved. I think of autism as new code. There are version 1.0 out there but so are versions 2 and beyond.

I completely agree, I also feel I'm not living to my full potential just I don't have the motivation. Ive always felt I don't belong. I'm 36 and recently been diagnosed but i did well academically with an IQ of 132. I do sense a lot more than NTs and read people intentions well which makes up for the lack of social skills and difficulties I have. But I don't have the same desire or requirement for friendship. I'm happy being on my own, gives me less anxiety and overthinking. I do have a gift for understanding technology and just know how things work without being taught. Can't explain it. I also have a really good immune system like never been ill since I was a child. Never had COVID or the jab. I like to think I'm part of evolution like new code it always has bug but always gets improved. I think of autism as new code. There are version 1.0 out there but so are versions 2 and beyond.

Yes, I am sure that neurodiversity is a part of evolution. You, guys and ladies, are much deeper from the so-called "normal distribution". You have so many specific and sharp capacities, like strong memory and eye for detail, in non-linear thinking too, that this is scary for those, falling into the "normal distribution" - you are unconventional, and they don't know how to handle you, because they compare themselves with you, but they don't have what you have. I am quite shocked that they referred you, with your superpowers, to "spectrum". They are conservators, and you are experimenters. You are "at the edge of chaos", with all those numerous alternatives, structures and conditions that you are able to notice! In Norway, for example, there is an entire IT company, Unicus, consisting of ASD people. They are very successful, and their slogan is "competitive advantage" because this is completely true. I computed a humor-based solution that is exactly to facilitate uniqueness of every mind, and for neurodiversity, and the minds can initiate their own, more compatible connections, write about their dream and include 5 concrete knowledge areas in the search for connection. That is made exactly for more harmonious and vision-oriented collaborations: intellectualandimmaterialbank.com/ You drive the human evolution forward.

2 buns would that do it       ?

I'm talking about more as in a higher percentage of the population.

Thanks, I'm not actually interested, just sharing some information I've read.

Well, he was certainly highly capable of hyper-focusing on specialised subjects, he spent 8 years producing a definitive study of barnacles, he was a rather solitary child, despite having siblings, he is known to have had only two romantic relationships - one unrequited, the other his marriage to his first cousin, he was a compulsive systematiser - of insects and other specimens, he was obsessive, in his middle and later years he had an unvarying daily routine, he hated public events and the threat of one or even the arrival of visitors would often make him so ill he would be bedridden. 

read "The origin of Species" by Darwin ( not autistic ).   

The articles I read suggested that autism was part of nature's trial and error process, not the end result. As evolution is a very long process, we will never know either way. It's an interesting theoretical concept.

increase maybe due to the fact humanity as a whole is increasing. give it another 50 years time and the human population will be 100 billion..... with that everything increases, to the point youd then have like 10 billion autistics in the world.

I’m not talking about how it’s treated, I know the condition has existed throughout evolution until present time, that it existed before the term “autism” was even made. Since all neurological differences are increasing it makes me think the increase is part of evolution as the world’s evolving, that when the world evolves we evolve with it.

nah, i think its always been a thing.... in the ancient times wed have been like the hermit in the woods, or the shaman.... its always been a thing but treated differently based on how society is at the time.

Actually, from the research I've done, it seems the evolution of society and the trajectory of consumerism, driven by capital and shaped by advertising, has caused autism to surface. Supposedly, it has always existed and this would make sense when one needed to be connected to the earth, have heightened sensory skills. In a civilisation without technology or even without education, an innate abliity to analyse and make connexions, to understand how everything is connected would be beneficial. 

This site is quite good: https://autcollab.org

This particular blog, I think, explains the NeuroDiverse phenonemon, answering this question: "If neurodiversity is the natural variation of cognition, motivations, and patterns of behaviour within the human species, then what role do autistic traits in particular play within human cultures and what cultural evolutionary pressures have allowed autistic traits to persist over hundreds of thousands of years?" autcollab.org/.../

it is evolutionary.... alas, all the NT's, or most of them, hate us... so they treat us like the ...was it cro magnon? treated the neanderthals. wiped 'em out............................................. but with stones, branches, ............fists..... 

It is more complex. Many gene variants (alleles) that are found in higher concentrations in autistics are beneficial - what is not beneficial about the ability to hyperfocus on a topic or problem? However, having too many of these alleles  pushes the possessor into clinically diagnosable autism. While some individual autistics have made huge contributions, like, possibly, Einstein and Charles Darwin, a society or the entire human race consisting only of autistics would probably be dysfunctional.

It is evolutionary if it helps us to be better adapted to our environment. Autism may make us better adapted to the world as it is (as in natural systems) but we are poorly adapted for the socially constructed world. If we do manage to respond appropriately to our damaged ecosystem then autism may be an asset in a world where authentic connection to nature is essential. 

I have read a few articles several years ago which discussed autism as being an evolutionary process. The theory was that it is not the final point of this particular evolution,  the end result has not happened yet, just autism was part of the process of obtaining the next evolutionary step. It's an interesting theory.