MONKEY wrote:
No, I highly doubt that.
Animals can have "special needs" though, and have disabilities of the brain and stuff. I saw a video on youtube of two disabled chimps, one had some brain condition that makes him hit himself a lot, and another had a deformed hand and was a bit ret*d. So yeah you can have special needs animals.
BUT I am HIGHLY doubtful of there being autistic animals.
I am not denying that animals can have mental problems. I agree that they can have "special needs". I'm just saying that animals don't have as complicated a social order as humans and they do the same thing every day anyway (eat, sleep, eat, sleep), so if a wolf is obsessive, what is there to be obsessed about? Hunting? Wolves do that every day anyway! An AS wolf and an NT wolf would have different minds and yet behave the same way!
Animal AS would probably come across as more of a personality quirk than a disorder, if anything. Civilization puts behavioral expectations on us humans that animals are not subject to. As we progress socially, expectations increase and characteristics that would have been seen as lovable personality quirks (or barely noticed at all) in prehistory and/or history are labled as disorders.
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