• One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.

    • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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      Shamans.

      “Look, he said he knows where all the fruit bearing trees in this forest are. Not a lot of them, all of them. He pointed out a squirrel the other day and told it he was glad to see that it made it through the winter. I don’t know how he does it, but if he says we have to move because the squirrels are starting to move to new trees, who am I to argue? We move.”

      • @fairchild@sopuli.xyz
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        36 days ago

        This feels so true. Modern day version maybe. Always been drawn towards spiritual things and the amount of dark stuff I trigger in others is crazy. It’s been a journey to understand and accept. But it’s good doing some healing, for others and myself.

      • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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        This feels spot on.

        Add star constellations and telling immersive stories while guarding the fire at night to the list.

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          Don’t forget putting entirely too much effort into building contraptions with sticks, clay, wood, rope, etc. Somebody had to invent the forge bellows.

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      117 days ago

      probably witnessing mammoths or other animals return to their nest.

      However I don’t think the happiness would last long