My brother is autistic and lives in a sheltered community. I have no idea what his belief's are frankly but he's autistic and I'm an atheist. Both my parents are atheists. Neither of them is autistic. Doesn't appear to be too much correlation there.
In the meantime it does appear that autistic people do use their brains very differently from the norm. When high functioning autistic people have been scanned doing normal things (like looking at faces for example) totally different parts of the brain light up than is normally the case. It would appear that autism is, at least in part, a wiring issue.
This might also explain why autistic people are capable of doing remarkable things. I've met a pair of autistic twins that communicate between themselves using prime numbers - big ones - 17 digit prime numbers. No-one knows how they do this and they sure as shit can't explain it.
In my brother's case he is a calendrical savant. Tell him the date - he tells you the day. He can cover about 150 year period as far as I know. Again - no idea how he does it. When you ask him he just "sees it" or he says things like - well - its the same as 1964 or something (which really helps).
In the meantime it does appear that autistic people do use their brains very differently from the norm. When high functioning autistic people have been scanned doing normal things (like looking at faces for example) totally different parts of the brain light up than is normally the case. It would appear that autism is, at least in part, a wiring issue.
This might also explain why autistic people are capable of doing remarkable things. I've met a pair of autistic twins that communicate between themselves using prime numbers - big ones - 17 digit prime numbers. No-one knows how they do this and they sure as shit can't explain it.
In my brother's case he is a calendrical savant. Tell him the date - he tells you the day. He can cover about 150 year period as far as I know. Again - no idea how he does it. When you ask him he just "sees it" or he says things like - well - its the same as 1964 or something (which really helps).
