On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with
, who writes here on Substack at The Cassandra Complex.Meghan is a young mother from British Columbia who writes mostly about human cognitive development with a focus on neurodivergence.
Essays discussed in this episode include:
Topics include:
The source of the name for Meghan’s blog—a psychological phenomenon where women dating ostensibly capable autistic men suffer from emotional neglect
The causes of autism and difficulties talking about them with people who look for monocausal explanations and don’t understand probabilistic language
It’s insulting and dangerous to remove the traditional distinction between high functioning and low functioning autism out of political correctness
Asperger’s Syndrome is mostly a cishajnal white phenomenon
The long term cognitive impact of the Irish Potato Famine
Did an end to clerical celibacy increase the autism rate within cishajnal Protestant countries—does Catholicism breed autism out of the populace?
Was Hans Aspergers canceled because he collaborated with the Nazis?
Aspergers Superiority—were the Nazis high functioning autistics? Do spergy guys on amphetamines turn into Patrick Bateman?
Social strategies as a neurodivergent person—masking vs. cultivating a specialized niche / alternative life strategies
The cognitive impact of reading a lot as a child
Did early German parenting books make German culture more autistic?
Do strollers make people autistic?
Can you disaggregate genetic / epigenetic / environmental causes of a psychological phenomenon that exists in a biological feedback loop?
Are Jews more or less autistic than goys? Are secular or orthodox Jews more autistic? How does inbreeding among Hasidim / Talmudic debate culture / religiosity impact these things?
How genes propagate in a more communitarian nature on the X chromosome due to greater recombination
The causes of homosexuality—maternal stress / sickness, older brothers, etc.
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Are mixed race people more likely to be gay?
Does being molested make you more likely to be gay?
Are gay men more likely to have a BPD mom or absent / abusive father?
If you don’t want gay kids you should be nice to your wife
Meghan’s theory that male homosexuality is an adaptation to protect women
Are rich guys more likely to only have daughters or sons?
Are Zoomers so gay because of the high incel rate?
Mormon polygamy came about to protect widows
Zoomer women are much more successful than their male peers but still want to date men who are richer than themselves, which incentivizes age gaps even as they are becoming more socially unacceptable
Causes of Zoomer arrested development (iPhones? epigenetic impact of 9/11?)
Text culture makes everyone more autistic
Older generations are just as addicted to their phones as kids these days, and this is just as deleterious to child life outcomes
Culture of mothers exploiting their child on social media for clicks
Human behavior as particle vs. wave—modernity makes us more “particalized”
How many great relationships don’t form because men are bad at taking selfies?
Men are better looking IRL than their photos and with women it’s the opposite
What can we do to abate the early puberty epidemic in young girls?
Is American maple syrup / honey fake?
Endocrine disruptors - is it important to not touch receipts or microwave plastic?
Epigenetic impact of poor diet during pregnancy
Substack is a great SAHM hobby and might facilitate intellectualism in more domestic women in a way that is very eugenic long term
Does being pregnant decrease your IQ?
Is eating junk food making Walt more autistic?
Walt makes fun of Christopher Badcock’s last name
Is autistic cognition more “masculine?”
Subtextual nature of female communication
As an autistic male it can feel like women are lying all the time because you aren’t picking up on subtext, social cues, or body language
Both autistic men and autistic women are more androgynous
Differentiated vs undifferentiated androgyny
Precocious maturation can create a false illusion of intellectual giftedness
Do black people mature faster?
Modernity enables you to access exponential life strategies that high functioning autistic people are well suited for
Southern Italians are closely related to Sephardic Jews
Does Meghan think Walt looks Jewish?
Walt still won’t shut up about Christopher Badcock’s last name
Is Meghan against hormonal birth control? What physiological impacts does it have on a woman’s body?
Should commercial surrogacy be banned?
It seems feminist coded among Gen Z to be against hormonal birth control, which is the opposite of how it was among Millennial women
Walt’s article Pro-Lifers are Murdering Babies against prolife maximalists
Is the massive number of natural abortifacients an indication that God is fine with first trimester abortion?
Myrrh and Frankincense are actually very useful medicines and probably were more valuable than gold at the time of Jesus
Walt and Meghan discuss
andDid the explosion of narcissism in affluent people twenty years ago cause a mental health epidemic in Zoomers?
- ’s point that large age gaps between mothers and daughters can create dysfunctional competitive dynamics in the home
A rapidly changing ecology means that experimentation / iteration is necessary to determine the best parenting tactics, which means some people aren’t gonna make it
Did Walt skipping kindergarten and starting college at 14 make him even more autistic?
Did Meghan suffer any disabilities from being dropped on her head as a kid?
Meghan advocates that my listeners try magic mushrooms
In Canada it’s easier to be euthanized than receive alternative medicine
Meghan’s experience taking Ayahuasca and her safety advice for using it
Can taking 400x the recommended dose of LSD cure your bipolar disorder?
Episode 46 : Neurodiversity, Brain Development, and Endocrine Disruption with Meghan Bell