First, all creatures, or most creatures would qualify as “Autistic,” in this theory, it begins with an assumption that all creatures’ neurology is diverse, every which way, within and without orders, families, genus or species, and that most are specific and quirky, and that “Autism,” is not a type, due to it’s diversity, rather, that “Autism,” is the diversity, from which has spring a new type, making humans different from the rest of the creatures fairly recently in geological terms, and the new type is the Allistic Human, with its rather specific typing and neurology.
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I’m afraid I do not know enough about other sorts of neurotype, ADHD, etc., to be clear, but they are likely also a part of the Primal Diversity, TM, and not the new thing, because of the nature of the actual new thing which would restrict the diversity generally.
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This framing is a reversal of the existing, perhaps tacit framing, the Neurotypical framing of the situation in which they are the original sort of human and the rest of the neurotypes are spinning off from them, this is clearly not their trend, to create diversity, but to restrict it, so the idea that Autists, etc., are something new is sort of impossible, we see a history of humanity fighting and burying the new and strange, not creatively throwing up options – that’s actual nature that does that, evolution that does that – and it did already, the world didn’t begin recently.
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The new development, Allism, is an aggressive, dangerous, self-selecting genetic thing, dare I say, a fatal mutation that has destroyed the environment upon which it depended in no more than a few hundred thousand years, maybe in only a few tens of thousands of years, maybe even in only a single ten of thousands of years.
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The evidences we see for humankind’s specific footprint upon the world are very recent and everyone always talks about ‘civilization,’ as something new – except NT civilization still thinks it’s the original form, somehow.
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It must be built in, part of the type, and difficult not to think it for them.
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This is a thing that I will predict, that if it ever occurs to them to search for Allistic genes, or to notice the ones they’ve already found, they will find them appearing at these scales of time, perhaps where the fossil record records changes, beginning maybe when fire was harnessed, and then at three hundred thousand years ago and/or at thirty thousand years ago (these numbers from Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox).
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Maybe even less, I’m open. The evidences of wars would seem like a pointer.
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That’s about it.
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This much seems self-evident, by their own myths, history and pre-history:
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It is the human warrior neurotype, Allism is, and as such, much of their “human science,” is skewed towards aggression and “control,” of something, perhaps also the most natural sort of thought for the type, and they want to say that they are the original sort of human being, but the rapidity of the destruction suggests otherwise, does this madness look like it could have lasted three million years to you? This attitude? I think we all know, it’s come to its conclusion far sooner than that as warriors’ plans always do.
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This was the first bit of restructuring this idea brought me, it explains the existence of these several neurotypes in a way that fits our evolution in terms of what we do know of history and pre-history, because the world a million years ago wasn’t constant war and environmental destruction and it is now, so the new thing is the active thing, the working, fighting, busy thing, and the Allistics, the regular people of the world absolutely define themselves in exactly this way. In fact, the rest of us are a problem for them because we do not log or mine or war hard enough, or to put it in current terms I do not love: they cannot make any money off of us.
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The next bit the restructuring changed was the “sociopath CEO,” idea, it makes more sense the other way about from here:
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So we are the primordial soup and Allists are the new fatal mutation that may finish our species along with most of the rest of them – and the worst kind of people, the most dangerous, ought to be locked up sorts are not those with social disabilities, but those with social superpowers, the super-Allistics, the ones who can control thousands or millions of people and do. I mean, there is war and environmental collapse, and there are rich people controlling things, so the two may be one thing: they are making them happen. I know, their theory is they only attempt, but fail to control.
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They’re wrong at the very least, and this is them, “controlled.” If they really believed it “didn’t work,” you would expect them to make adjustments and they do not, because in some real way, of course it, “works.” Everything does something. It’s reality, not a videogame where some buttons do nothing.
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This is them, the actual living breathing results of their actual actions, and that they think none of it affects them because they think they would have been this way anyway – again, I’m sorry, it has to be part of their makeup, right? A thing their brains were not evolved to do, to connect the cause to the effect as regards themselves. “Human Nature,” may be built into them, the meme, not the Nature.
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About that, Human Nature.
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Tacit again perhaps, but the existing framing, the neurotypical framing of the situation is this meme, and the first thing it says is, it’s all Humans, we are all the same, somehow – and then if we’re not, that’s a problem, a pathology, but there is a grain of truth. Natures aren’t a thing, it’s not all humans that the meme fits, but it is a real thing, in its proper place, as is often the case, the bad meme indicates an effort, there is something they have been trying to get at that they are calling Human Nature, and despite they get it wrong, that something does exist.
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It’s Allistic Nature they are describing.
With the caveat that a more realistic, less creationist version of a “Nature,” would be a moving target in the real world of evolution, that creatures do have ways of being, perhaps this is a “Nature,” a way of being, but that they simply aren’t static or permanent. In evolution, my Nature is a little different from my father’s, because evolution, because things change. But I still have my way of being, my Nature, I suppose, which has individual elements, but is largely an Autistic nature – and the Allistics’ “Human Nature,” is of course, Allistic Nature.
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Again, I’m ignorant, I don’t know enough to postulate an ADHD Nature and other sorts, but this is the point, that “Nature,” in this sense, means neurotype. There are Autistic Natures, surely Downs’ Syndrome Natures, and Allistic natures and surely others.
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To make Human Nature, you’d have to add them all together, clearly.
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In some senses, that is what “Human Nature,” means, in some contexts it does apparently include every possible trait, as they say, from murder and larceny to selflessness and sacrifice, but this is rhetoric, of course a term that means “anything and everything,” isn’t a useful term, and a “Nature,” with nothing left out tells us nothing.
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But a collective Human Nature would add them all together, would need and use every trait. Inasmuch as their Human Nature is supposed to apply to us all, they also pointedly apply the worst elements to us all, they call the traps of their own deficiencies – neurotypes have superpowers and deficiencies – simply ‘the Human Condition,’ and assure us none can escape. I mean, it’s nice to share your Human Nature with Fred Rogers, not so much with Anthony Bourdain. Much less others that we see on TV a lot.
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I’m saying, since Human Nature isn’t universal, neither is the Human Condition, that that is only the Allistic Condition. I’m saying the neurodivergent have the keys to the universal prison of Human Nature, that it is not universal, that indeed humans exist that don’t have some of these problems and can show the normal folks the way out of them.
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It’s a mess, but that’s the theory.
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And this is where I am coming from when I speak, I am Autistic, this is the neurodiversity from here, this is the Way It Is to me and while as always, I have pride in myself and my thoughts, I don’t think this is what most Autists think – yet, maybe, I hope – they mostly think the stuff with the DEP in it, and that configures as ‘different but equal,’ and seems to accept half of the neurotypical premise when they speak and talks about ‘Autism,’ like it’s a thing and like Allism is just ‘normal,’ not a definable type.
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I can’t really join any of those conversations and I need y’all to join mine instead.
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Don’t we all, though.
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Bah. Autistic Nature. Whaddayagonnado. 😉
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Jeff,
Jan. 4th., 2024
Abuse with an Excuse 