Was autism as widespread in earlier centuries as nowadays? What

Women used to actually get impregnated at prime breeding age in the past instead of dying their hair purple and getting sociology degrees, so no, autism didn't exist.

>>2357067
>>2357071

Women kept having children until menopause because muh hands around the farm, muh infant mortality and muh marriage alliances. Also, a lack of rubbers.

So it's conceivable (no pun intended) that lots of autists were born, probably as runt children when the mother was older, unlike fetal alcohol oafs who were probably evenly spread in terms of birth order.

Sperglords probably ended up in the church as friars or, if rich, as priests. I know there's a traditional amongst the posh that thanks to primogeniture, the eldest inherits, the next eldest goes into the army or navy, and the youngers go into the professions or the priesthood.

It's no wonder the church uniform for friars and priests are basically medieval trenchcoats and LARP costumes. The church was paradise for speed, a place where they get to chat about their favourite superheroes in a highly structured environment where they don't have to pay attention to social cues.

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>>2357900
Considering more autist are drawn to atheism that doesn't seem to be the case.

>>2357909

So what happens to autists in Pakistan?

>>2357900
The church or monastic life wasn't "some extra place" during he Middle Ages but the cornerstone of society. In fact, anyone interested in an education would go through the Church. Not just men either. Women could become nuns and saintly women.

>>2357921
Probably are the type who never understand their religion and just save face.

Take any random mathematician from that era and that's how they looked like.

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You can't debate autism on a board that lost the meaning of autism

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>>2357921
Killed by Muslims

Muslims dont like atheists very much

>>2357909
It's not that simple.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psyched/201205/does-autism-lead-atheism

>Jesse Bering, in a 2002 paper, noted that in autobiographical accounts written by people with high-functioning autism, God is more a principle than a person. He/it provides order but isn’t much concerned with human affairs—the idea of him satisfies the intellect rather than the emotions. Temple Grandin, for example, described God as the entanglement of millions of interacting particles.

>In line with such a conception of the divine, Simon Baron-Cohen, who proposed the mindblindness theory of autism, told me that “sometimes I meet people with autism who are religious, but their motivation is driven more by the rules (the system) in theology rather than the anthropomorphizing.”
There are religious autists, and you can see why they would be attracted to theology. This sounds a lot like what theologians and philosophers have been saying for the past few thousand years. The Church was also the center of science and learning, nowadays autists have STEM as their outlet but it would have been the Church in the past.