The Neanderthal Theory

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And in relation to Asperger's Disorder from its eMedcine page:

Yeah, I've seen this claimed all over the Internet, but it is not based on anything real. Simply put, there are no prevalence studies to support this claim. I know because I've had professionals scan the literature for such studies, but they are simply not there.

One should also remember that since DSM is based on problems and not personality-traits, prevalence of ASD diagnoses will quite likely be related to culture. If a culture is ASD-friendly, there will be fewer diagnoses. OTOH, if they use culturally unloaded screening instruments a little of this problem could be elminated, but hardly all of it.

what is DSM please and OTOH??

New rule: ignore what rdos says.

O...kay...

New rule: ignore what rdos says. Did he actually say I only argue against the theory because I don't like the idea of it? Really? Really?!

Please... Buh-lie-ver! He can read, ya? Did notice how I wrote I like the concept but simply that there is no evidence but anectdotal and biased statistical? Right?

Gee, I must be getting rusty! And here I thought it was correct scientific form to question that with inconsistant evidence! Ho-hum. Guess I'll retire now...

New rule? I've had that rule for a while. Ever since I couldn't seem to make him understand that the sample of Aspies who take his quiz online aren't necessarily representative of the Aspie population as a whole, especially regarding demographics like race. Statistics: Learn it, live it.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt62769.html , this is my favorite thread ever because it truly talks about a huge majority of WP community.

Now how those threads are related?

I'll tell you why:

There are 2 main types of autisnobs:

-The Evolutionist autisnobs
-The Creationist autisnobs

-The evolutionist autisnobs(I am a extreme evolutionist btw) believe that Aspies are the beginning of a new evolved human subspecies who will be the next sentient human species after millions of years. There are even extreme evolutionist autisnobs who believe that Aspies are already a new different human species and they refer it sometimes to "homoaspie" or "homoasperger" ...something like that. And there was one or tow users who believe that the origin of Aspiness is the remaining genetic traits of the Neanderthals.

Disapproving these theories aren't hard due to the fact that Aspiness is not an advantageous evolutionary trait ...communication skills is the one the most important human skills nowadays and obsession and dedication don't compensate the lack of it since many people have obsessive traits anyways, according to some surveys most aspies die single. As for the other theory saying that Aspies are already new subspecies that's total scientific error, Aspies have the same chromosome and DNA structure of the homo sapien , people with Down Syndrome or Williams Syndrome can be scientifically seen as another human subspecies because they have a slightly modified set of chromosomes than other HomoSapiens(but that's not politically correct to say so) but aspies are 100% homosapiens and can procreate with any other HomoSapien.

Stats show that aspiness is not evolutionary advantageous nor naturally selected:




So asperger can't be a result of evolution. That's why those Evolutionist autisnobs refuse the possibility that autism might be caused by external factors because they want to believe that they are a special human subspecies.

- The Creationists' beliefs are generally amusing and funny ...the only group that can beat them in that field are the "The Creationist autisnobs" , those Creationist autisnobs are like Zionist Jews , they believe that they are mysteriously chosen by God to be created in a mysterious different way for a mysterious goal of a mysterious God's cause for the whole mankind . As like all Creationists , they say "God's ways are mysterious". I say: all this BS is a mysterious snobbish crap.

That's why those creationist autisnobs can't accept or even tolerate the possibility that their autism might be caused by any other external environmental factor because they believe that the only factor that made them so "unique" and "special" is God.

Stats show that aspiness is not evolutionary advantageous nor naturally selected:

yeah, nowdays noble metals seem like a good investment ;p

I wouldn't know one bearded guy from another though.

sorry for going off-topic OP, I do like the theory but it seems a bit far-fetched... it might be a good material for some science-fiction novel though, I might use it one day if noone else gets the same idea .

too late, the book is out already called: The clan of the cave bear by Jean M. Auel
he got there first