AaronI'm interested to get my fellow #ActuallyAutistic folks' takes on this.
Neuroscience News: Is Inflammation in Childhood A Mechanistic Link to Neurodevelopmental Disorders?
https://neurosciencenews.com/neurodevelopment-inflammation-24941/
Richard Kay@hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence
Without the genes which seem behind autism (when too many are dominant perhaps as opposed to recessive) it seems unlikely we'd have learned to tame fire or invented the wheel. Maybe we wouldn't have learned how to make quality stone tools. So I see this as part of what it is that makes us human and differentiated us from other primates. We know it's genetic because it runs in families. There's a lot of it in mine.
It's plausible that infant inflammation affects the epigenetic expression of some of these genes.
Jo - pièce de résistance@copsewood @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence
I think it's right brain priority thinking, wholistic, parallel processing, compared to allistic left brain priority hierarchical serial processing. I think this priority setting is advantageous & normal, not an 'inflammation' or anything that needs a 'cure'. It is to learn to manage the influx of the whole 'everything everywhere all at once' feeling. Just like allistics need to learn from others, less competitive more cooperative.
I think it's right brain priority thinking, wholistic, parallel processing, compared to allistic left brain priority hierarchical serial processing. I think this priority setting is advantageous & normal, not an 'inflammation' or anything that needs a 'cure'. It is to learn to manage the influx of the whole 'everything everywhere all at once' feeling. Just like allistics need to learn from others, less competitive more cooperative.
@copsewood @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence It could be that autism benefits the tribe, when present at an appropriate frequency within the population. Who is to say that evolution hasn't tapped into something simple like inflammation levels to regulate this frequency at a level close to what is ideal to maximize the benefit?
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