TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER It’s a genetic

TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

It’s a genetic benefit that’s gone too far. But I still cannot find similar work on it’s mirror effect: solipsism.

“Autism is an interesting phenomenon. Two books that I recommend on this subject are Thomas Sowell’s Late-Talking Children and Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy. To grossly oversimplify, it appears that clinical autism results from the same gene complexes that, in their less extreme form, result in introversion, a fascination with structure, and spatial reasoning skills. A genetic propensity for autism, like sickle-cell anemia, confers benefits to mild cases despite being maladaptive in its extreme form. Schizophrenia and Manic-Depression have been similarly linked to superior cognitive abilities, and it stands to reason that genes for any mental illness with a genetic component must confer some benefit, whether we understand it or not.”