They allow preservation of technical skills and production of goods that would normally require great skill and technology. So wandering or monastic autistics are the cultural glue that holds these societies together. Their autism manifests in deep memories, savant-level skills, and obsessive story-telling.
They aren't threatening to such solitary creatures, and are thus approachable. In each culture, these individuals are sacred. So mer/giant/ogre communities would be almost exclusively populated by autistics.
But in the highly separate cultures of these people, it works the opposite: They don't care if others of their species are around, allowing them to function in larger groups. In highly social human society, the relative disregard for interaction makes autistic people more likely to isolate. It's hard to even imagine humans of any variety doing well without cooperation. Cooperation allows all sorts of benefits, like transfer of knowledge and culture, specialization of tasks, and the members protecting and caring for each other to overcome difficulty. All three species obtain some significant benefit from a high percentage of their population being autistic.Ī small group/isolated species is not going to have most of the advantages that are derived from the Homo group, namely cooperation. The nature of the critical function should probably somehow relate to the common feature that these three races have in common: isolation. So, I wonder why would some species from the Homo genus be much more likely than anatomically modern humans to be autistic. They are much more likely to be autistic than anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens): one ogre out of 9 is autistic, the same thing can be said to one merperson out of 5, and one giant out of 7 (in comparison, only one anatomically modern human out of 44 is autistic: ).Īlso, both ogres and giants are as solitary as orangutans, and merfolk are as solitary as blue whales (which are less social than most other cetaceans), but ogres are as aggressive as great white sharks, giants are as peaceful as gorillas, and merfolk are as peaceful as capybaras (which are nicknamed the world's friendliest mammal).įinally, ogres have a better sense of eyesight, and hearing, but a worse sense of smell, giants have a better sense of hearing, and touch, but a worse sense of eyesight (they are as myopic/nearsighted as dogs), and merfolk have a better sense of smell (they can smell underwater like star-nosed moles), hearing, and eyesight (they can see ultraviolet light thanks to a gene derived from OPN1SW also known as short wave sensitive opsin, so they have four cones instead of three), but a worse sense of touch.
All these species have a seal-like blubber, also, merfolk have webbed toes, and webbed fingers (I want to go on a realistic way). Likewise, children with autism should have their gait examined and be referred to physical therapy when appropriate.In my world, there are three species from the Homo genus that make together a clade called "aquatic humans": merfolk ( Homo maritimus) (their scientific name means "marine human"), giants ( Homo maximus) (their scientific name means "tallest human"), and ogres ( Homo obesus) (their scientific name means "obese human") (they are still humans, just not Homo sapiens). The results suggest that children who persistently walk on their toes should be tested for autism. The ratios are higher in the subset of children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder: of 324 children with autism, 65 had shown toe walking and 39 had tight heel cords. Of 954 children referred to a developmental pediatrics clinic, 115 had at one time shown persistent toe walking and 75 still had tight heel cords. Of these, one of the most commonly described is persistent toe walking - for longer than three months after learning to walk - and tight heel cords, which restrict ankles to a 90 degree angle. Many studies of children with autism report problems with gait, or alignment while walking. Toeing the line: Many children with autism cannot easily flex their ankles past 90 degrees, causing them to walk on tiptoes.Ĭhildren who walk on their toes are more likely to have autism than other forms of developmental delay, according to a study published in January in The Journal of Child Neurology.
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