On the history of autism and the dramatic increase of diagnoses in Silicon Valley.

Written with the opinion that this is necessarily a Bad Thing. Revisit; this is interesting.

So if people are naturally creative or not, to what degree does 'encouraging' creativity even work? And do we understand this enough to know what aspects of creativity we are encouraging, or rather I should say: do we know how to encourage the 'good' parts of being creative and not make people into schizophrenics/sociopaths?

Can we ever truly know ourselves? No, and it would be awful if we did. "I think that life will continue to bewilder us for as long as we are self-conscious, thinking, feeling beings. "