Topic: Nerds and autism
+Anonymous A — 12.2 years ago #35,937
http://brainsize.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/lion-of-the-blogosphere-discusses-nerds-autism/However I think the Lion’s wrong to conclude that the similarities between nerds and autistic/asperger types is only superficial. The fact that nerds are more likely to have autistic relatives shows that there’s a genetic relationship. One possibility is that aspergers people are just nerds with mild executive dysfunction, and autistic people are just nerds with moderate to severe executive dysfunction.
But what is a nerd? In my opinion, a nerd is just a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) oriented mind and personality. As I previously opined, in the last 200,000 years, there’s been an evolutionary trade-off: social-sexual traits have been replaced by technological traits. As the ice age emerged and we moved North, we’ve been evolving from the sexually active spirtiual artists with people smarts (i.e. charismatic religious and cult leaders), to stable, focused scientific virgins with machine smarts. However, because humans have lived in warm climates for so long, the topical traits are still highly prevalent. When someone with a more tropical personality suffers from executive dysfunction, it probably manifests as schizophrenia, not autism. This could be why scientists are confused about whether autism and schizophrenia are genetically similar, or genetic opposites. Both are the same disability (executive dysfunction) but in people with opposite emotional and cognitive profiles, causing very different symptoms.
But what is a nerd? In my opinion, a nerd is just a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) oriented mind and personality. As I previously opined, in the last 200,000 years, there’s been an evolutionary trade-off: social-sexual traits have been replaced by technological traits. As the ice age emerged and we moved North, we’ve been evolving from the sexually active spirtiual artists with people smarts (i.e. charismatic religious and cult leaders), to stable, focused scientific virgins with machine smarts. However, because humans have lived in warm climates for so long, the topical traits are still highly prevalent. When someone with a more tropical personality suffers from executive dysfunction, it probably manifests as schizophrenia, not autism. This could be why scientists are confused about whether autism and schizophrenia are genetically similar, or genetic opposites. Both are the same disability (executive dysfunction) but in people with opposite emotional and cognitive profiles, causing very different symptoms.
If you are a nerd, you are probably autistic. Consult your doctor, or better yet, don't wait for his opinion, just take your over-the-counter autism meds.
+Anonymous B — 12.2 years ago, 6 hours later[T] [B] #407,244
I don't know, but when I see that movie Revenge of the Nerds, what I see are relatively healthy looking men pretending to be half-afflicted with cerebral palsy. Inexplicably, their haircuts are nicer than the retarded 1980s puffheads that the putative normals have.
+The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 12.2 years ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #407,641
+Beebs !!2dE4HTCjq — 12.2 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #407,648
tl;dr
·Anonymous B — 12.2 years ago, 9 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #407,805
·The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 12.2 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #407,808
·Anonymous B — 12.2 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #407,826
+Actual autistic victim — 12.2 years ago, 3 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #407,854
ROFLMFAO !!!! XDXXDXDXDXDXD
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