See also:

Man it’s almost like society is broken and not our brains.
Some people are broken. They’re the narcissists and psychopaths and people who refuse to address their trauma(having trauma is fine, doing nothing about it and making it everyone else’s problem is less so) who we keep handing power to for some fucking reason.
“Those who seek power, rarely deserve it. And those who deserve it, rarely seek it.”
My brain skipped over “herder” the first time and I was very very confused.
Well, if autism exists in animals (pretty sure i’ve heard that it does) i bet there are savants especially talented at communicating with humans.
That would be awesome. :)
World is full of pet owners gatekeeping the knowledge of their pets who speak full sentences
They’re called Labrador retrievers.
Rudolph, the autistic reindeer.
that’s a lot of autistic reindeer to herd.

Ah, I too saved this picture
I think this is a good reminder that traits we label one way today could have been real strengths in different contexts. Deep focus and strong memory would’ve been incredibly valuable skills in many ancient communities. It’s all about perspective.
Every tribe can use a Rain Man. 👍
Some old autistic people unfortunately masked by developing an obsession with hypernormalcy.
Boats just do many boats.
Respect




