Yupa wrote:

The connection between Nazi Germany and Asperger's Syndrome is undeniable.

Goebels certainly showed many signs of Asperger's Syndrome, as did other influential figures under Hitler such as Albert Speer, Lief Reifenstahl, and even Adolph Hitler himself.

If there's one thing anyone who's ever cracked an elementary history text knows, it's that the Nazis were trying to breed a master race: the Aryans.

Now, as we all know, Asperger's Syndrome is a predominantly white, and especially Northern European, disorder. Who better matches this description than the ideal Aryan race, who, like Aspies, were supposed to be of superior intelligence? It is easily possible that the traits Hitler saw in the ideal Aryan were the traits of an Aspie. Contrast these with the stereotypical Jewish traits that the Nazis sought to root out in humanity: greed and deception, both of which are typically uncharacteristic of the ever honest Aspie.

It is very possible that Hitler, by killing the Jews, blacks, gypsies, etc. and leaving the pure-bred white northern European, would have created a world in which Autism, specifically Asperger's Syndrome, was far more predominant, in a way that could have benefited an Aryan utopia.

In fact, since caucasians are just about the youngest and most recent ethnic group of them all due to environmental adaptation and genetic mutation, it is possible that their newer genetic traits and the caucasian's European environment (which requires a person to stay indoors most if not all of the year) would have seen a more obvious emergence of aspie traits, along with allowing the mutations and shifts in human evolution to occur that would allow for the introduction of Asperger's.

In fact, it is quite possible that those with Asperger's are a new strain of human that may at some point go on to replace the neurotypical, who is slowly but surely dying out while the aspie survives.



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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.



-Pythagoras

I thought that this was my original theory. I'm sure he wasn't just trying to breed blond/blued eyed people. The nazis did have a model of a large cranium which they took to measure their soldier's heads. A large prominent forehead was considered to be ideal. I wondered if blond/blue eyed aspies tend to be more high functioning. I know that sounds really bad but from my experience, blue eyed autistics do tend to be more high functioning. I haven't met a huge amount of aspies but I do think it's worth looking into. Would it be wrong to make a poll about this? Political incorrectness belongs in the PPR forum. But it does seem like most of the higher functioning aspies are on this forum the most. Love and Dating is filled with screwballs. General Discussion will tar and feather that kind of poll.oh and I wouldn't say that aspies are better than NT's. They definitely don't breed more.