Interesting and plausible take on autism. Feels like a Hegelian leap in understanding: 1. Thing - people disabled or shunned for autistic traits 2. Antithesis

Interesting and plausible take on autism. Feels like a Hegelian leap in understanding: 1. Thing - people disabled or shunned for autistic traits 2. Antithesis - people living successfully with similar traits (who escape medical judgement and classification) 3. Synthesis - Smash the two groups into each other at high speed and filter out a new perspective As an aside, I wonder if autism as a word has any connection to "ought", as in "the way things ought to be". Lines up pretty nicely with mental rigidity and overmodeling to me