And..thanks, Ben - Good One.
Not merely provocative - a gold mine! also well written.. wisely concluding with the essential caveat: eliminate (whatever it is* that "causes"?) this diversity - and we might well increase the rate at which we are now evidently morphing towards --> The Eloi, via increasing dumbth.

* "broad autistic phenotypes" ?

Fascinating - Billy's autism (long contended) enabled him to utterly ignore civilized behavior and get rich.. but worse: via going to the heart of Murica'$ National Religion: once a few of those women got tired of guys with just big abs: now we can blame the ensuing Popularity and epidemic (?) on Billy, too! (Kinda suggests new awareness of the subtlety of his foisting NT -NeuroTypicals!- on an unsuspecting world. The big Why? vengeance natch.. er Cackle?)

Were there any remaining questions about the efficacy of er natural selection ?

Loved the 'iron'* walled fortress of the medical establishment' - perhaps geek creativity focussed on an in-house problem - can at last take on and reveal the poverty of allopathic medicine's pathological linear-think (?) Talk about Ego-Wars-2000. And Carver Mead again! (went through Cal Tech with a 4.x gpa - most all A+s). He was indeed a strange BMOC.

* prefer 'lead' - denser and impervious to thought-radiation.

Lastly re 'triggering of a genetic combo': PH-3 say, or the other toxics in every fab, ergo in the air of Si Valley? AMA'd never get it, or even study it; certainly not the pharm chem Corps - no $ in That! (how synergistically doth pharm-chem and AMA single-think <> feed each other!)

For me, a totally unsurprising development (not forgetting that it remains thus far merely a damn good hypothesis). Surprised! though, that I've lived to see so many connections noted all-at-once AND - a chance that these very same talents might.. bypass, supersede the intransigent med. establishment:

Kaloo Kalay Oh Frabjous Joy !!
Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle..




Ashton
Nemesis of most-all allopaths in white coats (or even plaid).

(!)
Maybe.. she'll be reeel good at selling.. then, for seeing how easily manipulable people are - she'll despise the fact that she's good at it: then give away her ill-extorted gains and join a cult dedicated to the overthrow of the Cult of Billyness - for just plain Goodness' sake. (Yup - epiphany in Her future!)

Umm how old is she? We can always use recruits, bein outnumbered and all.. by them consumers. Should I send her some literature?



Ashton Psychoanalysis & Proselytizing AG
We find out what you've got and give ya new windmills to tilt at.

Silly as some of these 'tests' are - maybe this one is about as well as you can do in a.. self-administered one. That is, most of us 'lie' to selves either occasionally or - regularly (those become marketers or other form of asshole or even.. an AG).

I suspect that via the obvious algorithm, a good observer with some psych understanding (from experience not books) and well acquainted with the subject.. could infer some useful information from these questions. (Of course the tester would rephrase them to suit, reduce the obviousness - or even know some of the answers about the testee).

Besides.. in extreme ranges: HTF Could a severely isolated one even be remotely aware of what? s/he had missed from the cradle on: ~hey.. there are Other Beings in my tiny omniverse here *too* -- Gosh!


Yours for better self-testing - always administered by a damn good tester and to a brilliant testee. Guaranteed Results R'Us.