Newsweek loves to feature articles about Autism.

People love to buy Newsweek and read articles about Autism.

If the following cliche’ is true [about Autism] then most of the world is Autistic only they don’t know it yet:

Work is play and play is work

Sound like anyone in YOUR neighborhood?

When was the last time you didn’t schedule something? when was the last time you did something “spontaneously” and it was fun? when was the last time you played, really played without having to work at it?

if we’re not careful about our obsession with time management and commitment to “careers” we may all be in for more and more future generations of Rain Men and Rain Women who are engineered to think fun is being at the office until sunrise and work is going to the park [ugh] again.

how weird is this “are you a workaholic” quiz on Forbes.com?

WHAT IF [humor me here for a moment] it’s unhealthy lifestyles like ours that generation after generation give rise to abominations such as Autism?

Did you know that Autism does not exist in Native cultures, such as Native American, Native Alaskan, Aboriginal, etc? Not a single trace exists in these cultures. Well, maybe if they continue to participate in our culture long enough they will, too!

WHAT IF, collectively, we are killing off our collective consciousness [ie imagination] by exercising mostly only those “muscles” that work and watch tv or some such other unimaginative recreation? at what age does imaginative play stop? what was it 20 years ago? 50?

PLEASE. DON’T JUST SIT THERE READING NEWSWEEK.

THINK ABOUT IT.

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