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I would like to hear more about that, about other mental illnesses, depression etc... Does being blind also affect these?

• dcolkitt 7y ago
  Congenital blind people have much higher rates of autism. Some models of psychiatric illness view schizophrenia and autism as two broadly opposite poles of a grand spectrum, so this kind of makes sense in the context.
  • caleb-allen 7y ago
    Do you have any further resources for this view? I'm very interested. I have an uncle with severe schizophrenia, and a cousin with autism, and just recently noted in my journal how autism and schizophrenia seem to be the extremes of one's ability to reason about and categorize the world around them.
    • dcolkitt 7y ago
      SlateStarCodex did a good job covering the high-level evidence for the view: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/11/diametrical-model-of-autism-and-schizophrenia/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/11/diametrical-model-of-a...
• macintux 7y ago
  The article discusses that.