We aren't taking here about fulfilling the call of your life. This is about having a duty, at least a daily responsibility. You cannot compare busy people working jobs that they hate (but they know that somebody require them to be there) with people without even a routine. I come to suspect that you haven't given to topic a lot of thinking. If you want to talk more about it I invite to become a member of to the Future in Life Institute. We discuss topics like these in our conferences. You are invited to participate in the conferences too. https://futureoflife.org/team/

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.amppr... Every action has a reaction. Basic law of nature. There will be a tax to pay for the income of displaced workers (at least). Who will pay for it? The question is not going to be if this is going to happen, but when. Then, unemployed people, even with enough money for basic living, if they don't have a purpose, a mission, a problem to solve, will become depressed. We will have a mentally ill society. But not all of them. Some might engage in criminal activity for the thrill of it.

And BTW, stop playing games. You know that there's no evidence for a lot of things in the past. Sorry if I touched a nerve.

I don't. That is what the "Genius in a box" and your evolutionary argument implies, which I find debatable.

Of course, it is very prevalent. Plastics and forever chemicals are very prevalent too. Their use in the United States became very popular a few decades before the Sun-Rise movie that marks the turning point in the conscience of ASD in this country (and continues rising) in 1979. It is well known that both are environmental pollutants that interfere with the mechanisms in our bodies, but the extent is not completely known. There's no proof of causation, but they have not been submitted to the same level of evaluation as vaccines. Please don't be so naive to think that our celular process operate free of external interference. As to the list below the use of the well known pesticides. https://www.npr.org/2011/03/02... https://www.ewg.org/pfaschemic... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... But, returning to your point, if this was an spontaneous evolutionary trait, why now? Why not before in thousands and thousands of years? Why aren't we surrounded by an ancient, superior ASD society as you imply? We know that some evolutionary traits develop only to be suppressed because they are not fit for the species. How many times on human history do you think that this happened to this evolutionary trait?

Agree. :-)

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This. Like used to answer to a evangelical girl at school. I might not know the bible by memory, but I know it by heart. ðY Now I know that there's a 'law' for that. Thanks!

If an ASD person can advocate against ABA, he/she certainly doesn't need it. My soon to be lawyer nephew would not be there without it. The prevalent therapy before that TEACH, only was offering him basic life skills.

For those that don't open links, here's content from the Associated Challenges section: - Nearly half (~50%) of those with autism wander or bolt from safety. - An estimated 40 percent of people with autism are nonverbal. - 31% of children with ASD have an intellectual disability with significant challenges in daily function, 25% are in the borderline range. (56% total) - Nearly 28 percent of 8-year-olds with ASD have self-injurious behaviors. Head banging, arm biting and skin scratching are among the most common. - Drowning remains a leading cause of death for children with autism and accounts for approximately 90 percent of deaths associated with wandering or bolting by those age 14 and younger. - Nearly two-thirds of children with autism between the ages of 6 and 15 have been bullied.

I'm not the OP, but anyway: https://www.autismspeaks.org/a... Life is not easy or cheap for the average family having a member with ASD. My brother got to take loans to pay for a years of ASD therapy (Applied Behavior Analysis), but luckily it paid off for my nephew. It is not always the case. My wife used to be an ASD therapist (ABA, late '90s). The therapy center received a spectrum of customers. It was mostly limited by your paying ability than your functioning level (since it was very, very expensive). What she saw there doesn't match what you see in the movies or the streets. For every highly functional ASD individual that you see around, there are many non-functionals that barely go outside.

Let's be honest. They would have not survived enough to consider suicide in a hunter-gatherer society.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) makes you very flexible, and there are positive implications for the people having that condition. But life is not perfect for this group of people. They suffer. If you check the article below, it would seem to indicate that Synesthetes have superpowers too. The stronger ones develop an superb creativity in their teens years, that spikes their neuroticism and can evolve into a schizophrenia into adulthood that will make suffer not only them, but their whole family. https://www.sciencedirect.com/... I understand how this article would want to validate the individuals with autism spectrum disorder as valuable contributors to this society. The high functioning members are. But they suffer. So please, let's respect the individuals without praising the Autism Spectrum Disorder. We don't need more of it. I consider myself a borderline, very high functioning person in this group (wouldn't meet the definition, of course). Being aware of that, I decided to marry the most non-ASD girl that I could get, because I didn't want my children to suffer. I not only found one. She was also pretty (still is), and the second person in the state in becoming an Applied Behavior Analysis therapist. Later she became Doctor in Psychology. My nephew was a student at the same ABA clinic that my girlfriend (now my wife) was working (he was 3, it was 1998), and now is studying a Law degree. He will become a contributing contributing member of this society. So it is important to care about the ASM people to make sure that they feel as contributing members of our society. But please, we don't need to praise the ASD like a tool that need to be cultivated by this capitalist world to find solutions to our problems. That wouldn't be ethical.

There's a Rule of Thumb: Every time that an article is titled with a question, the answer is No. There's no need to RTFA to know the answer.

Because in their search for revenge, proponents want the executed to suffer. Suffer as much as they supposedly made to suffer their victims. Of course, this is assuming that they convicted the right person. Whem they talk about painless, they are talking about the eyes of the witnesses. They want the executed to suffer in a way that does not offend the sensitivities of the eyewitnesses. It must be painful, but not gross to the now-turned-killers. There have been many methods that have been discarded in the past, as they don't satisfy the bloody anger of the victim's relatives.