Why ancient tribes needed autistic minds

This makes TOTAL sense to me. I'm on the spectrum, and this is the best way I have seen this expressed, and I have thought this for a LONG TIME.

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Worth reading my first two posts in that thread.

Our ancestors were much smarter than we give them credit for - and much more inclusive.

As soon as humans started staying put, the tendency for the sociopaths to start taking charge, ordering everyone to follow their plans, and collecting wealth, put many marginal folks into the lowest social category and the vital role they filled, didn't have enough sparkles to give them the respect they deserved.

Yes, the video's example of flint knapping is a valid starting point, but I've watched some videos about post and beam building construction done completely with hand tools, and that too, would require precision and care. Today, more respect for outliers might give us far few bugs in our computer code!