<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">For years I have been toying with the notion that perhaps Asperger’s is the form of autism in which the autistic person recognizes he or she is emotionally out of step with most of the rest of human race, but decides to try to join mainstream humanity. The person is mentally capable enough to look deep within and ask why, then take steps to counteract those factors.<font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></p><font color="#888888" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">spike</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>Social and emotional intelligence are fairly recent topics in psychology, thanks to a few trailblazers like Goleman. Social awkwardness or at times cluelessness are all over the place relative to IQ or any other factor you can name. My own emotional intelligence is very, very high according to the online tests I take, but my social intelligence is below average (but not off the charts as some autistics and those with Asberger's are). I have discussed social situations with students 30 years my junior and have been corrected, taught, enlightened etc. by some of them. (That is typical of an INTJ, if you have any interest in the Myers Briggs.) I am now far more careful about what I say and do in social situations than I was much earlier in life. It's almost like AA - I want to go back and apologize to those I have hurt along the way with frankness and clumsiness, however innocently motivated.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>bill w</b></font></p></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 8:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-3757066617704973456WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] shining example and COVID-19<b><u></u><u></u></b></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">However, lots of people who are high-IQ show some traits that might belong to the “Asperger” family, and their children are likely to have more of these traits than either individual parent. This would limit the ability of such children to produce offspring.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">### This is a pretty complicated subject, hard to address in a post. Autism is associated with low IQ but then high-IQ is mildly associated with some autistic traits. Hard to tell what is the overall impact on general fertility but I would think it's relatively minor.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Rafał<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Perhaps there is no causation, but there is correlation in this instance.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Families with autistic members have an increased rate of children with autism.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Older parents are more likely to have autistic children.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">For years I have been toying with the notion that perhaps Asperger’s is the form of autism in which the autistic person recognizes he or she is emotionally out of step with most of the rest of human race, but decides to try to join mainstream humanity. The person is mentally capable enough to look deep within and ask why, then take steps to counteract those factors.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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