• Shou@lemmy.world
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      Maybe we should pathologize neurotypicals’ tendencies to pathologize anything they can’t relate to.

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    Fortunately he was cured of the crazy obsession of being happy and giving a fuck about things.

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    One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.

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      5 months ago

      Shamans.

      “Look, he said he knows where all the fruit bearing trees in this forest are. Not a lot of them, all of them. He pointed out a squirrel the other day and told it he was glad to see that it made it through the winter. I don’t know how he does it, but if he says we have to move because the squirrels are starting to move to new trees, who am I to argue? We move.”