r/RandomThoughts • u/AntakeeMunOlla • 17h ago
Witch doctors and other similar titles were probably very autism-heavy professions
I found myself thinking about how nice it would have been to live in a hunter/gatherer village and be the weirdo who spends every day collecting and sampling plants in case they have some cool hidden properties just to end up being a respected healer because you found one that alleviates back pain or something and nobody else has any better knowledge about healing. You might end up trying to cure cancer by rubbing dandelions on it because you once tried it on a painful stomach it got cured in a couple of days but who cares, it's the best they got so might as well go for it and hope that placebo does the trick.