Why is natural selection against people with autism?

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Most autists mental state , makes them dig tehir own grave , they dont have as many partners as nt bhenchod people withe xtreme subhuman genes , most good looking guys i know , who have autism have very low body count ,like i dont think they even know this word jfl.

 

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@Aloha

 

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because autism is a spectrum

a little bit of autism is reproductively advantageous because it allows you to obsessively hone and master a craft such as tracking animals by smell or engineering airplanes and makes you cold-blooded.
See @Orc

In most cases this will be subclinical, you can tell; however there are no negative traits that would warrant the title of a "disorder"

This is why in Scandinavia around 15% of the population has schizotypal traits to cope with the extreme cold and isolation of winter.

as soon as you have autism to the point you can't work and obsessed with Thomas the tank engine it becomes a negative trait for reproductive fitness.

This is why autism persists despite being reproductively disadvantageous. Same reason as traits such as sickle cell anemia in blacks which protect against tropical parasites by altering the shape of the red blood cell, but a blood cell that is too deformed causes sickness and death

 

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Modern humans are still riding off adaptations made in prehistory. Epigenetics aside, you have to go back quite some time to find anatomically divergent ancestors. Evolution works slow

So was autism advantageous in prehistory? Yes. Being too autistic to follow normie trends and staying inside obsessing over trains might not help you get laid today. But turn back the clock 3k+ years and traits like skepticism toward authority, obsessive attention to detail, immunity to peer pressure probably came in handy for at least a group of our ancestors.

You also have to consider the extent to which autism is mutational vs hereditary

Further reading

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230796909_Conceptualizing_the_Autism_Spectrum_in_Terms_of_Natural_Selection_and_Behavioral_Ecology_The_Solitary_Forager_Hypothesis