I love how in this video you covered the exact point I made in my previous comment lol. Syndromic - that's exactly the point which I think people overlook when making arguments about adhd or autism being adaptive in the past. It's great to hear some hard evidence about how evolution has interacted with the genes underlying adhd. I definitely agree that the polygenetic factor is key to understanding the persistence of these neurodevelopmental conditions. A condition that is based on one single gene - if that gene doesn't also confer some benefit to some people - is more likely to be 'weeded out' by evolution than conditions rooted in many widely dispersed genes where for most people those genes will not be a cause for any dysfunction or disorder. Are there any researchers/clinicians in the autism world as forthright and no-nonsense as Russel Barkley I wonder? I know that from quite early on and to this day (e.g Mathew Parris!) ADHD has been extremely trivialised with people often denying the reality of it, so I guess that must really motivate people like Russel Barkley to fight against that trivialisation and misinformation with hard science and reasoned argument. It seems to me that autism - because originally it was associated with those with the highest support needs - has historically suffered from less trivialisation and denial, which is why it is so bewildering to me that there is such an exerted effort on behalf of many in the NDM to present autism in such a way that absoutely trivialises it.
Yes, things don't to be possitives to hang around, they could be biproducts of other extreme evolutionary problems that had to be solved. Bipolar and Schizophrenia for example are obviously NOT evolutionarily reproductive at all, nor are back problems, but wouldn't have been a big problem if we didn't start walking upright, and having more and more complex technologies and societies. I can't explain it well, but you did better than me.
You were making a medical arguement but we can't forget the complicated ways weaknesses can become strengths. A small engine motorcycle will fall behind on the straights compared to a large CC bike, but it'll be at an advantage on the curves compared to the heavier bikes. I know it's a shallow way at looking at things, but we mustn't lose ourselves in thinking about all the ways we are "not right" compared to our NT peers. The entire universe is different through everyone's eyes. Play the game at your own pace and look for the raceways that your bike will excell at. We have one shot at this so we might as well enjoy it and set our own personal goals. We all race by ourselves, we just get to see what other racers do. We race against ghosts like in Mario Kart lol Asking the "what if" or the 'what could've been's' can be useful for medical understandings, but it too often comes back to the "what if I was different?" And that only hurts, imagining alternate realities. I think you're cool right now, as you are. I'm not being an anti-intellectual, just reminding you and the rest of us on the spectrum that we have to play the best game we can with the cards we have. It's easier to NT to look at research in a detached way, but for people like us, there's sometimes a self-doubt in the back of our minds.
I love how in this video you covered the exact point I made in my previous comment lol. Syndromic - that's exactly the point which I think people overlook when making arguments about adhd or autism being adaptive in the past. It's great to hear some hard evidence about how evolution has interacted with the genes underlying adhd. I definitely agree that the polygenetic factor is key to understanding the persistence of these neurodevelopmental conditions. A condition that is based on one single gene - if that gene doesn't also confer some benefit to some people - is more likely to be 'weeded out' by evolution than conditions rooted in many widely dispersed genes where for most people those genes will not be a cause for any dysfunction or disorder.
Are there any researchers/clinicians in the autism world as forthright and no-nonsense as Russel Barkley I wonder? I know that from quite early on and to this day (e.g Mathew Parris!) ADHD has been extremely trivialised with people often denying the reality of it, so I guess that must really motivate people like Russel Barkley to fight against that trivialisation and misinformation with hard science and reasoned argument. It seems to me that autism - because originally it was associated with those with the highest support needs - has historically suffered from less trivialisation and denial, which is why it is so bewildering to me that there is such an exerted effort on behalf of many in the NDM to present autism in such a way that absoutely trivialises it.
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Yes, things don't to be possitives to hang around, they could be biproducts of other extreme evolutionary problems that had to be solved. Bipolar and Schizophrenia for example are obviously NOT evolutionarily reproductive at all, nor are back problems, but wouldn't have been a big problem if we didn't start walking upright, and having more and more complex technologies and societies. I can't explain it well, but you did better than me.
This guy was using the back problem standing upright super change in evolution as an example ruclips.net/video/c2yNWu_Wkh4/видео.html
You were making a medical arguement but we can't forget the complicated ways weaknesses can become strengths. A small engine motorcycle will fall behind on the straights compared to a large CC bike, but it'll be at an advantage on the curves compared to the heavier bikes. I know it's a shallow way at looking at things, but we mustn't lose ourselves in thinking about all the ways we are "not right" compared to our NT peers.
The entire universe is different through everyone's eyes. Play the game at your own pace and look for the raceways that your bike will excell at. We have one shot at this so we might as well enjoy it and set our own personal goals. We all race by ourselves, we just get to see what other racers do. We race against ghosts like in Mario Kart lol
Asking the "what if" or the 'what could've been's' can be useful for medical understandings, but it too often comes back to the "what if I was different?" And that only hurts, imagining alternate realities. I think you're cool right now, as you are.
I'm not being an anti-intellectual, just reminding you and the rest of us on the spectrum that we have to play the best game we can with the cards we have. It's easier to NT to look at research in a detached way, but for people like us, there's sometimes a self-doubt in the back of our minds.
Not to be werid, but you're absolutely gorgeous. You look like Jordana Brewster.