Greetings from a highly functional asperger autist,

1. My mentality is ASD, the opposite of ADD, that is, Attention Surplus Disorder. Average persons have an attention span of eight seconds (per McGill University 2015 study[was twelve seconds in 2010 study]) which means their consciousness no longer cogitates what one was thinking nine seconds ago. You have experienced this when you say to yourself, "What was I just thinking?"
2. McGill researchers cited smart phones as a primary cause of the reduced attention span. Other researchers cite the impersonal nature of cell phones, as well as social media, as a cause for reduced interpersonal skills and increased depression. The reputed tools of connectivity are downhill paths of intelligence and happiness. For some people, they are connectivity cliffs, aka, suicides.
3. With ASD, one discerns discontinuity or contradictions in average attention-spanners. Non-sequiturs stick out like sore thumbs. When queried about inconsistencies, most short-thinkers go on the defensive as they do not remember what they just said. Many turn on their anger engines. Their ego defense introduces thin-skinned mental blockage that further reduces mental recollections. In effect, a lower attention span predisposes one to be a natural, unintentional hypocrite, i.e., dumber than one's usual normal. And, if you throw in low-information truisms, one finds it takes a fool to argue with a fool.
4. One's frustration level (proneness to quick solving a problem) is a combination of attention-span and relevant knowledge. In the 2024 election, Ameica showed the consequeses of a combined lower attention span and declining education system. Many low information virtual ADD citizens voted for an emperor with no clothes as they saw what they wanted to see. The is a correlation between attention span length and the proclivity for being either narrow-minded or broad-minded.
5. An analogy of ASD to ADD is the difference between being awake and asleep. Nightmares occur as one does not have the cognitive capacity to integrate reality guideposts as one skips from bad thought to another. This is one of the factors in PTSD as the military plies front-line troops with neural stimulants that create mental memes that cannot be comprehended from an after-war lower normal consciousness. The Veterans Admiinistration does not understand this which means a lot of vets are mistreated with drugs. (In the World War II, "General Eisenhower ordered half a million pills of benzedrine sulfate, each containing 5 mg of amphetamine sulfate. These were used during the grind of battle, reducing combat fatigue and instilling confidence to charge positions"). Today, PTSD. Then Shell-shock. When the horrors of battle are encased in complicated ASD memes they become repressed memories lurking below consciousness causing uncertainty and anxiety about who one is and of what one is made.(My prescription: "Shit. Go get a beer. Laugh at your uncertainties. Write a book. Learn to play an instrument. Make new friends.")
   [Counselors are like weatherheads who do not understand the primacy of electricity and chemistry in atmospheric "metabolism." Counselors do not appreciate the primacy of the REM cycle in presenting different personalities at the extremes to the individual and others. The mental difference are akin to the difference between deep sleep and REM sleep. It is based on the body's metabolic roller-coasting between the central and autonomic nervous systems allocation of nutrients. Like the difference between REM and deep sleep, one has different thinking or personalities at each extreme. An example is the difference in one's commitment to a diet at different points in the cycle.]
6. A true autist with ASD learns to withdraw from social interactions as the inherent natural and relative hypocrisy of others causes inner discord. There is a difference between intentional and intellect hypocrisy as one can see in a child explaining how to play chess as if it were checkers. ASD'er are accused of being argumentative when all one is trying to do is to clarify what the automatic hypocrite means in his words.
7. ASD'ers are verbal chess-players rather than mere checker-movers. They use big words because they can cogitate the broader, deeper meaning for apt application to the nuance of the moment. A phony will use impressive words out of context that do not fit the moment white a true word-smith will automatically use a word that captures the moment. Examples of the former that grate on this ASD'er are "the storm decimated 80% of the town", or NBC's signoff "We thank you for the privlege of your time." Where's the private law in my watching NBC news?
8. A true autist is a big diamond in the rough who requires more polishing than the average child. But, given care, an autist will shine brighter.
9. Most parents with true and pseudo autistic children want others to foot the bill as they continue to spend money that worsen CO2 levels: shop-till-you-drop, sports play-play-play ... gas guzzlers, etc. There are exceptions. Almost two decades ago at a summer party, I told the host that I thought her one-year-old daughter exhibited autistic tendency. As a friend she took no offense. Six months later, a doctor diagnosed autism. The mother quit her high-paying office manager job to focus on being her daughter's full-time companion up to middle-school. At this point the daughter was able to function independently with achievements in academia and music. But, she still is autistic as when I meet her in high school. Ahe is asocial. I am proud of this mother (Michelle) who knows her daughter will not end up in a back ward for convenience sake.
10. As an ASD'er, I was lucky to have had life-helpers who helped reverse my childhood and adolescent hell (my repressed memory of 40 years).

Timism, the Morality of More Time, aka, Periodic Table of Existence is a tribute to my ASD of asperger autism. I think I may have become a sigma man.

1. I can tie things together because I have a broader attention span to juggle more information. One is a transductive rather than deductive or inductive reasoner.
2. I find information more interesting than people. By the age of eight I had page thru the 20-volume World Book encyclopedia five times.
3. I am a loner because I find most human contact rife with hypocrisy and pettiness so I have more time to think (I designed my den to be a thinking chamber).
4. I don't waste time on wants as much as most people as I see the cancerous time-losses in wants.
5. I do seek to be a perfectionist which might be confused with my wanting to be a better problem-solver to expand my acupuncture morality.

Taken all together, Timism is a validation of my existence as a thinking being with a high ASD. My college achievement is but straw before my eyes compared to Timism.