Are Jews more predisposed to autism than others

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Have you ever noticed how Jewish religion, when it goes as far as specifying exactly how many pounds is okay to carry on sabbath and exactly how many feet, is similar to autistic thinking. Also, Jews traditionally rock their body back and forth while praying just like autistic do. It seems that perhaps ppl who wrote talmud were autistic to some extend. It is also possible that Jews are genetically more predisposed to autism than others, which is why they were willing to follow through on these beliefs for centuries.

I am not saying that all Jews are autistic or anythign like that. Clearly, most of them are NT just like most ppl of other races are. But since autism is a spectrum, perhaps its possible that Jews are affected by its "shaddow" so to speak. For instance if the combination of a thousand genes cause full blown autism, perhaps the average Jew carries 5 or 10 of these. At the same time, while the number of ppl who have full blown autism (with all 1000 of them) is still a minority, perhaps that minority is larger among the Jews which is why some of them were in a position to write talmud. What do you think?

My dad's side of the family is Jewish, (from Poland), but I don't think we have any autistic individuals in our family history. However, my dad is a diagnosed narcissist, and my family on both sides has a disproportionately large number of addicts - which includes my brother and myself.

Having said that though, I can see what you're saying because I do think I have a few aspie characteristics.

Living under a rule-based religion would probably not cause autism or Aspergers, but such a religion and its associated culture would be made to order for someone who happens to be an Aspie, for example.

Judaism is inherently move "objective" than say Christianity of the agape variety. Less gooey sticky sentiment. One can always determine if he is acting according to halachah (Jewish law). With Christianity, one is supposed to be filled with love (whatever that is).

Judaism is a suitable religion for Aspies for the same reason that computer technology is the right career venue for an Aspie.

ruveyn

this could also explain antisemitism as a world wide bullying
i mean
Jews were always considered wired,different,hard to swallow,their presence uncomfortable and a bit out of sync
Jews were also very into integrating with the locals and at times to succsful at that for their own good
Good with numbers and words and of weak and sensitive bodies
Israel Hi tech is out of proportion to the population size
how come few millions of us take such a giant rull in the IT revolution
jews must be aspies
one other trait which i find very aspi like here in israel is that everyone have a different opinion on any little thing and is willing to go to a lot of trouble to make his voice heard

I have read that Jews are more predisposed to having tuberous sclerosis which has been proven to cause autism.

Jews are also much more likely to have radical beliefs which would make them a bit eccentric compared to the norm.
They have higher IQs too which make them appear nerdy perhaps. Nerdy, eccentric people resemble aspies.

I thought the aspie gene came from a germanic race of people....

Now it's Jews?