>I can't help but wonder that the future might not actually belong to neurotypicals. That, perhaps, the Aspie mutation might be better adapted to a world that is becoming more and more computerized and less and less hospitable to neurotypicals.
This will ENTIRELY depend on who out-reproduces the other.
>Neurotypicals seem to think Aspies have "anti-social" lives, but those I've met seem pretty happy.
But not necessarily reproductively successful.
>When will a critical mass of Aspies exist, or the world become hospitable to them despite not having to pretend to be neurotypicals?
Quite probably the opposite will happen (has happened, and is happening).
In a very ironic/paradoxical sense, it is the "Aspies" (people who have historically "obsessed" over machinery, technology and the physical world -- to the detriment of their own sexual reproduction) who have enabled the technophobes to successfully increase in numbers far beyond what they were capable of before. When human reproductive choices were far more limited (because travel was limited, total number of human interactions were limited, technology spread/scaling was limited, etc) then the anti-social (a-social? under-social?) Aspie types still had a chance to reproduce in sufficient numbers such as to pass on their genes. In addition, at previous levels of technology access to information/tools essentially required interaction with other human beings (to a far larger degree than with current technology).
The modern world -- with everything from antibiotics to automobiles & jet airplanes -- has led to humans having wider circles, to the greater marginalization of Aspie types; and recent technology (especially the internet) has facilitated a self-withdrawal of more and more Aspies; such that more and more of them are likely to be genetic dead-ends.
Ergo the chances of Aspies reaching some "critical mass" is not only highly unlikely, it is improbable.
This will ENTIRELY depend on who out-reproduces the other.
>Neurotypicals seem to think Aspies have "anti-social" lives, but those I've met seem pretty happy.
But not necessarily reproductively successful.
>When will a critical mass of Aspies exist, or the world become hospitable to them despite not having to pretend to be neurotypicals?
Quite probably the opposite will happen (has happened, and is happening).
In a very ironic/paradoxical sense, it is the "Aspies" (people who have historically "obsessed" over machinery, technology and the physical world -- to the detriment of their own sexual reproduction) who have enabled the technophobes to successfully increase in numbers far beyond what they were capable of before. When human reproductive choices were far more limited (because travel was limited, total number of human interactions were limited, technology spread/scaling was limited, etc) then the anti-social (a-social? under-social?) Aspie types still had a chance to reproduce in sufficient numbers such as to pass on their genes. In addition, at previous levels of technology access to information/tools essentially required interaction with other human beings (to a far larger degree than with current technology).
The modern world -- with everything from antibiotics to automobiles & jet airplanes -- has led to humans having wider circles, to the greater marginalization of Aspie types; and recent technology (especially the internet) has facilitated a self-withdrawal of more and more Aspies; such that more and more of them are likely to be genetic dead-ends.
Ergo the chances of Aspies reaching some "critical mass" is not only highly unlikely, it is improbable.