Schizophrenia and Autism as Diametric Disorders of High Intelligence
Schizophrenia and Autism as Diametric Disorders of High Intelligence Crespi (2016a) modeled autism as a disorder of high intelligence, where intelligence and autism overlap genetically and phenotypically, autism being essentially the dysfunctional consequence of high intelligence. While there is strong evidence for this model, Crespi models autism & high intelligence as opposed to schizophrenia, with schizophrenia being a disorder related to low intelligence in the model. I contest this aspect of the model in this paper, and argue that instead autism and schizophrenia are both disorders of high intelligence, specialized for different environments and associated mating strategies. I also argue that culture and certain biases have lead to the mischaracterization of non-autistic intelligence, and that schizotypic intelligence is equally prevalent but less recognized by the majority of society - especially academia, which I argue is largely designed in a way that rejects high intellige...