Who are these NT people?
Research shows that up to thirty percent of people have at least one Autistic trait, and the most recent research from The Briggs and Meyers personality test show 50.7 percent of the American public are classified in the Introvert category.
Neurological differences in sensitivity to Dopamine underlie Introversion and there is a correlation with Autism as well. And then there are the extreme extroverts; the thrill seekers, that have a different neurological makeup than the introverts.
Many of these people don't have a diagnosis of any sort but they certainly aren't typical. These introvert folks are all around you; we all notice the extroverts if we are introverts, they seek attention in a way we don't, but they are no more neurotypical than we are.
Statistically the Neurologically typical people are the majority in the middle with a balance of extroversion and introversion. They are the balanced ones, doing their thing, for the most part not giving anyone problems, living for family and work.
The people that make the decisions in the world are not neurotypical; they are the outliers; the extreme extroverts that seek the attention of the world. They are just as neurologically different as people with a diagnosis, they are on the other end of the human spectrum of neurological and personality differences.
We have to face the facts introverts don't seek the attention of the world; in general, don't have what it takes to run society, and it is the last place that most people with a diagnosis with Autism/Aspergers would want to be.
If ever the human species finds a way make everyone equally supreme, it spells doom for our species. Variation, mutation, is what got us to this point in history, we are now; we have no idea if any characteristics that aids in human survival will be beneficial one hundred years from now, depending on a myriad of possible inorganic/organic changes in our environment; sourced as cultural byproducts or of natural origin.
If one is living now there is a reason one is here and only one reason: one has the ability to survive. One can feel proud of that, they are one of the fortunate ones in the succession of millions of ancestors and beyond that through the inanimate matter that has existed since the origin of the Universe.
The most supreme ability in life is the ability to survive, everything else is frosting on the cake.
From that perspective dragon flies and cockroaches are the supreme ones, we have only been successful at survival for a tiny fraction of the time they have been successful.
The thing that benefits introverts most in survival is they are more cautious in life, and less likely to to endanger their life by the time they get to reproductive age. Extroverts, on the other hand are more likely to reproduce if they reach reproductive age: more social interaction means more reproduction.
The most a person can ask of themselves is to be happy who they are, if one starts to believe in themselves to be inherently better than others, eventually that philosphy will fail, we are all human and subject to fraility at any point in our lives.
You state that you want the neurotypical people to learn to be like autistic people and send them off to correctional camps if they dont? Which ones are neurotypical? the introverts, the extroverts, the ones in the middle, politicians, homemakers, athletes, cheerleaders, evangelists, scientists, engineers, doctors, philosphers, criminals, the mentally disabled, muscians, artists, writers, teachers, administrators, the mentally ill, the crippled, smokers, drug addicts, alcoholics, cashiers, stockers, janitors, librarians, stockbrokers, gardeners, carpenters, mechanics, the complexity and variety of the list could go on for pages.
Does your way of thinking and being fits all these conditions and occupations in society? Do you think they have the ability to be anymore like you than you can be like them? Do all people with Autistic traits think and act a certain specific way? Are they always introverts; are they ever extroverts? Many of these conditions and ways of life are part of the population that has Autistic traits. In your correction camp will all the Autistic people have to act and think like you do?
Cockroach and Dragonfly Supremecy exists. They act the same and have existed for millions of years. There is no such thing as individual supremecy among social animals; only alpha male competition for reproduction and there is always another alpha male waiting to take the last alpha males place. Variation, competition, and cooperation are the supreme traits that allows a social animal to survive. Cockroaches and Dragon flies are the species with the majority of neurotypicals, not human beings.
This is a very long post, lots to think about here, if you have time to read it. But considering all these factors, is the idea that there is supremacy in any group of humans that share some of the same characteristics a realistic one?
28 Jun 2011, 3:12 pm
