All right. So I don't want to get too controversial.

Okay.

This is legit. But we talked to our last episode about how medieval people might respond to a person with autism.

Yeah.

Right. And there is a lot of conversation about are certain forms of neuro being neurotypical or whatnot? Are they more common now or not?

And I think absolutely people who were neuroatypical existed all through time.

Absolutely. But the research, and this is research that's really controversial, so it's very hard to get something non-politicized, seems to generally agree that even discounting for the fact that we wouldn't diagnose in the past, we are seeing more today than we used to.

There's no way to really know. I wouldn't call it an epidemic. People call it an epidemic. That seems too pejorative to me. I have a potential explanation. And this might veer into Brandon's conspiracy theory, but those are supposed to be, you know, low stakes. There's actually kind of high stakes on this one. But I actually have an explanation that I've never heard anyone talk about before.

And maybe they have.

Okay.

But do you think this is because nerds are marrying each other now?

I don't know where I expected you to go, but it wasn't that.

Okay. Go with me on this for a little bit.

In the past, if you were the 1800s, and I'm just spitballing here, I have no research to back this part up. Okay. But let's say in

the 1800s, you have a neuroa-typical child. You will either, unfortunately, isolate them

through certain times. You would put them in a home or things like that, and they would

never find like-minded people. Or you would be like, marry them off quickly. So they're not our

problem anymore. So they're not our problem anymore, right? And then our era comes along. And I am wondering if a lot of the things that like if you look back at

the movies from our parents era and the start of our era what is the stereotypical nerd except a

neurotypical person that everyone decides it's fun to make fun of.

Yeah.

Right?

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