2ukenkerl wrote:
NOT a very good sign! Redhair is NOT a semetic trait. Of course, the Jewish people WERE, for much of their existence, NOMADS, and ORIGINALLY "evangelists". Don't believe me? Read exodus, etc... There are LOTS of books where they do evangelistic things. AND, though they were told NOT to, they intermarried.
A good example of "telltale" that ISN'T telltale is american immigrants to the US(and probably other places) that spoke farsi, or had some other iranian trait, around 1979. They were almost ALL JEWISH! That is NOT to say that Iran is a jewish country. It ISN'T! But they were shoved out. Likewise, yiddish sounds almost like platt deutsch to some degree.
I agree that the whole intermarriage thing sort of makes this whole exercise pointless. This assumes that there was ever a time of "true racial purity", and there was not. Your example of Jewish people kind of proves the point, since many different ethnicities exist within the category. I'd guess that those Iranian Jews would probably identify as Mizrahim or Sephardim, not Ashkenazi.
Not in response to anyone in particular, but I'd also point out that socio-economic status can influence whether someone gets diagnosed with AS or not, especially when there are so many inequities in educational resources. Autism is not exclusively a "Caucasian" thing; in fact "Caucasion" is a pretty bogus term. People in Europe often use it to refer to people from a very specific region, not all of Europe.