Autism and Hunting

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Is there anyone here that enjoys hunting or has a desire to hunt and kill animals for food or sport.

i hunt a little bit but im not very good at it i have not gotten a deer or a bear.i usualy hunt 1 day of black bear season and one day of deer season.i tried elk venison about 10 years ago when i was friends with someone who would go out west to colorado.i have also tried white tail deer venison as well.im getting discouraged and if i dont get something this fall i dont know if i will keep hunting

Why is everything conceivable tied to "Autism" nowadays?

One of the reasons I ask this question is the Aspie Quiz, Aspie Hunting traits, and the Neanderthral Theory of Autism. I don't think hunting is associated with Autism. I speculate that people on the Spectrum would have less desire to hunt than the general population.

If lack of empathy is the strong trait that people on the Spectrum have, it doesn't seem to be evident when it comes to killing animals.

I wouldn't have survived as a Neanderthral; I am too domesticated.

I hunt white-tailed deer. I also eat a variety of game and wild fish throughout the year.

This explains rdos reasoning behind the questions a bit more.
http://blog.rdos.net/?p=61

As a Homo sapiens sapiens, you are.

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Only in video games.

It's not an activity I'm interested in, but I'd go if I were invited by friends. I'm familiar with guns and able to shoot an animal if the opportunity arised. My asperger's has little to do with it.

My dad took me hunting once, we didn't get anything and I didn't enjoy it. I don't have a problem with people who hunt but it's not my thing. I'd do it to avoid starving for sure though.

I've read it all, and I think it is a good example of how one can relate almost any occurrence in life to another subject, if one gives it enough thought.

Take the first couple of characteristics as an example:

Walking on toes in the relationship to sneaking up on Animals and spinning in relationship to an animal trying to get rid of a human.

Interesting connections; I don't see them, but that's just my opinion.

The overall characteristics required in Neanderthral hunting were physically robust features that don't exist in our population today; social interaction and alpha male status, and the ability to cooperate skillfully within a group to kill a large animal without being killed by that animal. Most every hunt had life or death consequences that were nothing like modern hunting.

Neanderthrals were not domesticated like our existing population, the fossil record is proof of it. Not likely that any human would be able to hold their own in a physical confrontation with a Neanderthral. The Geist article referenced talks about this.

The referenced Geist Neanderthral paradigm is an attempt at explaining the different methods of killing prey between Neanderthral and Cro-Magnon groups.

Sorry, if I go on about it, but I was an Anthropology Major and the first time I heard about this theory I was . No one can say for sure what the specific psychological and behavioral attributes were of Neanderthrals, because we have no way of conclusively proving them, so the Neanderthral theory cannot be proven or disproven.

Even if their is a proven genetic linkage, it still doesn't mean that neanderthrals walked on their toes for an advantage in sneaking up on prey. The Neanderthral Theory focuses on characteristics common to Autism now and speculates connections to why they might have been advantageous to Neanderthrals 100,000 years ago.

I like the Aspie quiz as a suggestive tool for characteristics of Aspergers, but I find the terminology related to the Neanderthral Theory a distraction from an otherwise valuable test.

from Wiki:



Technically my first statement is illogical; I couldn't be a Neanderthral because they are a separate human species, although I am kind of hairy, was unusually strong, and have sharp canines . I should have said I would have never survived in meeting the same requirements necessary for survival that Neanderthrals had adapted to in that time, culture, and environment.

As a species we are domesticated because the requirements for survival changed through our cultural changes. Not to say we are inherently smarter than Neanderthrals, the requirements are just different.

I'm a fan of unhunting. I only shoot NERF guns. But I do like the hunting scene. Nature. It's nice. Maybe I'll go unhunting for earth day.

I worked on a military base, and one of my collateral duties was establishing a hunting club on base property. I've never hunted; I couldn't believe how excited people get about it. We had a waiting list of people wanting to join. We also had complaints from the general public that the deer were closed in and didn't have a chance.

The deer were getting overpopulated though and affecting operations of the base. I don't have a problem with people hunting; there is a place for it. There are some though that are just as excited by the kill as any benefit for subsistence. It's part of human nature; an influence that is stronger for some than others.

Tangent alert:
My brother hunts and once a friend asked me in his presence what "buck fever" meant. I said (in all seriousness) that it meant that the hunter was so struck by the beauty of the deer that he couldn't pull the trigger. My brother looked at me like I was an alien or something.

i know for a fact that i am spawn of aliens

who abducted and implanted my mother with my alienness, for i am the only person in my family who lacks the outdoorsy hunting and fishing and sports genes.