• psud@aussie.zone
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    6 hours ago

    The food supply is radically different to 50 years ago, let alone 100, 1000 and 10000 years ago. There is reason to believe brain structures are changed by diet.

    I’m sure there were undiagnosed autistic people throughout history, but I reckon the glut of diagnoses now is due to food

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      There were always undiagnosed autistic people throughout history. The world and the sciences we live with were discovered by high functioning people with neurological differences.

      Science, religion, math, everything.

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        right, only autistic people ever contributed to science or math or anything of social worth?

        this is where you guys go off the rails. You know who also disproportionately contributed to the arts and sciences? Jewish people.

        you know the other factor that most ‘geniuses’ had in common? they were from wealthy families.

        rich jewish autistic folks are clearly the trifecta of pure geniuses, right?

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      There wasn’t even a diagnosis throughout most of history.