AS should be named Evolution Syndrome

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Deutha,

Wow, what made you say that!? I knew a girl once who, in etrospect, had several distinct physical autistic traits. SHE was born with 6 fingers on eash hand, and had one on each chopped off.

Also, she wasn't stupid, and went to a normal private school. Maybe SHE had AS also.

Most such fingers SUPPOSEDLY don't work, but there IS at least one person that has 12 good fingers. He has to getspecial gloves, etc... but he LIKES IT! He muses that they much just have forgotten to count his fingers!

I'm happy with the name Asperger Syndrome.

The 1st thing that springs into my mind when you say "Evolution Syndrome" is X-Men, meaning that if we affiliated with that, we are said by the public as outcasts and should be cured.

This is also referring to Autism, and besides both Aspergers and Autism being on the spectrum. They are at opposite ends with each other on the spectrun and are not the same thing.

I think the main problem is that the syndrome has a list of possible symptoms, and it isn't made clear UP FRONT that they are POSSIBLE symptoms that in themselves don't have anything directly to do with the syndrome. If you read further, it is more like a list where you can pick and choose. If you have the right mix, you have aspergers.

The average joe may not understand that and feel we all are spining, out of control, have tons of tantrums, always hurt ourselves, are ret*d, etc.... Hell, many HERE seem to think of AS ONLY with the mix THEY have. That is bad. The more the average person sees it as being as I described, the more they will want to opt for abortion if they find their kid has that "problem".

BTW even the most fervent believer in evolution will tell you that a big change may not succeed, but later may occur in small steps, and that changes don't generally happen in only one place. Sometimes a minor change in one area may cause major problems. OK, so AS may not be any different in that regard.

HECK, ALL zygotes have that same potential problem. A minor change could cause them to SPLIT! Sometimes it is complete, and you get twins like mary kate and ashley. Sometimes it isn't, and you get siamese twins. are we to look down at mary kate and asley because they are like chang and eng?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_twins

Steve

>>You're forgetting that some Aspies want it too, it isn't just NT's.

not sure where i said that...i'm all for someone getting treatment via their own free will....but not so much a blanket cure for what science currently seems to consider a disorder...

>>And who is saying we don't on here?

well u mainly...u r hacking on stipey etc...for expressing some positive thoughts about being aspie on an aspie website when society mainly degrades the condition..and makes it difficult for many aspies to survive in..

also he never mentioned the word 'ape'...while u have this in ur profile: You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're a bloody moron.

who are u calling a moron..... ppl that other people might like that u don't even know?

'stripey, how would you feel if some of the people you happen to like were basically said to be nothing but Apes by people who didn't even know them?'

>>We're hacking on stipey etc for expressing supremacist thoughts.

'I sometimes entertain the notion that the human race is developing into a colony species like some bugs. We're the brain bugs'

u mean like this?

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/autism_evolution.shtml

The article sounds really interesting, but I'd want to read the articles it refers to before I took it too seriously. "Rusty Rockets" on "Science-a-gogo" isn't going to make me change my mind.

But I must admit, it raises interesting questions.

To be fair, that's not necessarily true. A species can evolve from another species and leave the parent species intact, otherwise evolution could only provide for one or two species at a time.

However, I don't think that's what's happening here-- a number of 1 in 500 (to use a more conservative number than 1 in 166) appearing across the globe... this is something else in operation. I'm willing to accept that the existence of ASDs predates our naming them, sure, but at these numbers, we'd have to have been developing for a lot longer than a couple of centuries.

Certainly, we know that genetics can play a part. But we also know that ASD kids can be born to parents who are completely NT.

That's not evolution. I don't know what the hell it is, but it's not evolution.