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Originally Posted by Douglas MacNeill
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...ticated-humans
The guy who posted this suggests that persons with autism
are deficient in what he calls mentalism (other experts
use theory of mind to refer to approximately the same
phenomenon) as part of being less completely domesticated
than other humans.
His other idea is that humans shouldn't want to be wholly
domesticated, and that this phenomenon describes our plight
better than being on the wrong planet (metaphorically).
I don't necessarily like the idea, with its suggestion that
persons with autism should be placed in the care of the
SPCH (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humans;
an equivalent for humans of the SPCA or Humane Society).
I wonder what you think about this idea.
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Another view... I also know that there are a few theories, fringe though they may be in the scientific community that in the case of Asperger, it is seen as human evolution in progress. That said, I know one person specifically who use to refer to me as feral,