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Isn't stuff like that kinda normal tho? Humans of all types like patterns, and symmetry, and precision. These things are just very pleasing to the eye
I'm inclined to believe that too. Then again I would say a lot of "autistic" things aren't abnormal.
A lot of disorders and syndromes are really just normal things that everyone deals with. They just a lot more than the average person. It's like the nepo beach baby who claims they're depressed because they don't feel happy sometimes. That's not depression, that's boredom, you're bored.
Same thing with autism. Someone can be a fan of trains but realizes that a random person doesn't want to have a conversation about them. It's the scale and scope of the behavior/disorder that defines it. Not merely having that characteristic at all.
Oh yeah i didnt mean it in a disparaging way. I am neurodivergent myself.
I feel like autism for most people is would be just considered as a beneficial character trait for a lot of human history. In the same way that some people are extremely charismatic.
It would essentially be seen as just a beneficial role in a tribal society. We likely filled roles of tradesman very well. Blacksmiths, leatherworkers, tailors, etc. I'm just speaking from personal experience. But, there is a reason I loved rebuilding the same Lego set each day when I was 5 years old.
Modern modes of capitalist production don't allow for this type of labor. At least not for the masses. Some of us are able to thrive doing a form of labor like this; but most of us are put into jobs that are completely outside of the whole of the production. Something that is extremely alienating and frustrating for my brain that needs to understand "the whole" before I can master "the steps". At least to a level of enjoyment or satisfaction. I can definitely work on steps before understanding everything. But, if I am never allowed to expand beyond that step, I lose interest. Probably why I can't keep a job for more than a few years.
I think it's why autism is seen as a negative trait by modern society. We don't do well in most jobs unless we are able produce similar levels of satisfaction to this type of "tradesman" form of labor. A labor where you know the source of the materials you are using, the production steps as a whole, and are able to form relationships with the people that are receiving the products of your work.
For me personally. I'm not good at expressing my relationships with others through feelings, conversation, or really just "normie" type ways. I form relationships with people (or show appreciation for others) through material actions. Its likely a compensation for the scientific definitions of autism. The "problems" with it. But, honestly, I feel like it wouldn't be such a downside if I could form those human connections in the way that I am capable of doing.
Edit: sorry, rant. But I'm in the right sub to not have to explain.
As someone who has spent a great deal of time studying my ancestors and how they lived their days, their mannerisms and preferences, my current family's mannerisms and preferences, and then thousands of pages written by colonized people about uncolonized people, this is the exact conclusion I came to as well.
I mean, just off the top of my head.
Wow, that makes so much freaking sense!
Have you ever quilted or lived with a quilter?
A cut of steak is pleasing to the eye... the slaughter house, not so much.
In the same vain, many people who eat meat could not stomach the processing behind it.
Quilters are a different breed.