Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

—“Why couldn’t you get into a good college Curt? Not smart enough?”—

Hardly. School was trivially easy. But, Autism. I didn’t want to go to college. I felt unready, and I thought it was unnecessary. I wanted to work and travel. And go when ready. If I went, I wanted to be close to home. It was the closest engineering school. Once I got into college I studied a year of engineering, year of pre-law, and then four years of fine art. And I went to one of the best art schools.

I find education pedantic? Infantile? Like most autodidacts, I prefer self study. Only fine art was deeply interesting. Although I should have gone into the literature or philosophy departments when they asked me. I was too immature to understand what being asked meant.

Art is perhaps the most effete and elegant path by which to study the evolution of man – writers lie like hell because authoring like gossip is cheap. Arts are costly. Architecture especially, and all arts evolve to decorate architecture. (ie: the decline in architecture and art)

Net result is that autistics take longer to develop and this is partly because of the simple increase in neurons, as well as the narrowness specialization of the brain.Hence why autism can often be ‘cured’ by high investment parenting. Now, I’m not that autistic. But I was definitely lagging socially.

Now, you’ve got to understand, that delay in youth buys you what I have, and what many aspies have later in life, just as all neoteny buys you greater ability in exchange for slower maturity. Nature is up against a natural conflict – autistics are certainly the next level of evolution of man. The problem is that the cost of educating aspies-autists through to maturity is much longer in exchange for their talents.

Now I know that you actually don’t care, because you’re just an infantilist practicing a little GSRRM. But the proof is in the pudding so to speak.I built multiple successful companies, explored the world, and contributed a major innovation in the history of thought. Evidence is.