Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syi9bqfFIdY[/youtube]


recognizing autism as potential evolution...

Thanks for sharing, aspi-rant. Wow, what a compelling video. We wonder not just about the course of time but what it means, and that it is beyond our scope of knowledge. Autism is not to be "cured." From my experience, even from the Wrong Planet, I've learned there is meaning to being an Aspie - we matter, else we'd not be around.

Quote by author T.K.Thorne, regarding high-functioning autism/AS:
"Perhaps these gene clusters are part of nature's exploration of survival characteristics. If so we should be respectful of that and very careful about genetically "curing" it, as we might be curing the human race of creativity.”

In my experience Asperger's is nothing less than an extraordinary resource to humanity/people. Because there is so much knowledge in the smaller grey areas of the world, which Asperger's people often obsess about or have a tendency to notice and explore in contrast to others, that are more NT, and also the ability to not use social motions in life as a factor. When you look away from this you have a view of the world and systems that are different and interesting, and also needed, for all of us to progress and get better. Social movements in society does a lot of harm and mess up many attemps of producing significant knowledge.

Interesting but there is a lot of debate about the autism statistics numbers and why they are growing. We don't know if there is actually an increase or just more awareness.

I think we already technically qualify as a subspecies. It seems like we're already about as different as Neanderthals were from "Modern Humans." We don't qualify as a different species yet because we can still reproduce with Neurotypicals and have fertile offspring. Probably the only reason they haven't already classified us that way is because of Neurotypicals' tendencies to see non-humans as less real/valuable/conscious than humans (especially THEIR kind). When I'm in a situation that will allow it, I'll watch the video (I can't right now because of noise).