@Tamtam @pathfinder @autistics For this neurodivergent who thrived anyway meaningful way through history, I can only see two primary avenues to that thriving: either they found a way to dominate or they found a peculiar niche operating in a role seen as a medium to the superstitious.
We tend to appear uncanny to NTs. For those of us who are "Level 1"-ish, our abilities and limitations, who were seen as somehow capable, I suspect we were head with a form of reverence coupled with degrees of fear. When I say this, (and this always offend someone because they hear it in the contemporary context rather than historical), I mean that those of us in that category were seen as "wise ones", "shamans", "sorcerers", "the gifted touched", and "oracles": people to be feared but also sought out for aid. Those same people lived on the edges of cultures, unable and unwilling to be a part of the day to day but existing in a form of symbiosis.
We still have these people. They're the iconoclastic experts, appreciated by some for their craft and despised by others for their countercultural lifestyles and promulgation of same. For example, some are open source software maintainers of projects used by many.
