History is one long war between autistics & schizophreni

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I believe in the theory that autism and schizophrenia fall at opposite ends of the neurological spectrum with neurotypicals in the middle:

http://classic.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55599/

On many mental traits we find the pattern:

autistics > neurotypicals > schizophrenics

Or

autistics < neurotypicals < schizophrenics.

Neurotypicals are in the middle with autistics and schizophrenics at opposite extremes.

When autistics and schizophrenics have high IQ's they can figure out a way to use their extreme neurology to make original contributions to society, however because they are polar opposites, they are constantly at war pulling the culture in opposite directions with neurotypicals caught in the middle. Schizophrenics or borderline schizophrenics use their superior social ability to get millions of neurotypicals to believe their strange delusions, thus giving rise to art and religion. Meanwhile autistics and borderline autistics use their logical ability to advance our understanding of science and technology.

Even though autistics contribute truth, and schizophrenics contribute fiction, more people follow the schizophrenics in becoming religious because the schizophrenics have superior social skills and the autistics have inferior social skills.

However over thousands of years, people eventually realize the autistics were right and science slowly triumphs over religion.

I don't agree I think someone can have autism and schizophrenia, just look at MCDD and 22q11.2 deletion. I personally think the two are deeply connected. I have friends DXed with schizophrenia who come off as Aspies when they aren't having positive symptoms. I can really relate to schizo affective to the point where I feel I possibly have it In addition to my AS. I do have Bipolar but I don't think BP is a perfect fit for me I do think my AS is though. I don't feel as though the two are completely separate I think they can overlap a bit. I like to think of the two spectrum's as something that overlaps. Where you have severe LDs you have more autistic traits, and where you have less severe LDs you have more psychotic traits. Of course individual personality, genetics, and neurology plays a big factor in it to. Realistically you can't come up with generalizing statics without misrepresenting someone, that's why psychology is so messed up. People don't fit into perfect little diagnostic boxes.

I think the biggest problem with this is the generalisation that there haven't been mathematical savant type schizophrenics and there are sure as hell a lot of artistic expressive autistic people out there.

charles manson is a sociopath, not a schizophrenic.

I forgot to point out that it's a bit leading to suggest Einstein and Gates as autistic and Manson as schizophrenic in this grand historical neurological war.

I'm not going to diagnose him, but I was reading about H.P. Lovecraft yesterday. One thing that stood out was the way he established mystery and weirdness in his stories was by completely dismissing teleology. There isn't a reason for everything, no guiding hand that determines human destiny. The cosmos is vast and uncaring, and human beings are at best accidental. And this kind of premise led to the rather fantastical stories he wrote - Dreamlands, Cthulhu, etc.

I find this relevant because of the autistic tendency to ignore and dismiss teleology. And how it can lead to artistic endeavor.

Actually it's sociopaths and psychopaths who are at the other end of the grand social spectrum. Aspies make terrible liars, don't have social intuition, and are terrible at manipulation. Sociopaths and psychopaths are great at manipulating people, and often have very charismatic personalities. They use flattery to get their way. Take Hitler for example. He was able to brainwash an entire nation. In order to rise to that level of power, you need to be very good with people and very manipulative--the complete opposite of an aspie. I believe that alot of politicians and CEOs have some psychopathic traits. It explains why our world is so effed up. I also just have a general mistrust of men in suits. They seem to always come with trouble.

This is a good article that supports my opinion: Self-attribution fallacy