A key problem is not the dynamic between our selves and others, but rather it is the location of this dilemma in 21st Century modernity. Autism since 1997 and 2013 may have been put on the map with DSM 4 and 5, but it is my view that autism has been a part of humanity from the very start and before written language. Like in most things it is not what experience tells you that wanes but the discovery we make from that experience and the remapping it to our understanding. “In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind there are no limits.” ― John C. Lilly, M.D. Gender and the linguistic use of pronouns has been has been divisive. Both the masculine and feminine as Carl Jung has written may be a part of each one us. The border between them is dynamic and not ridged.
