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=== User: Not right now, I'd like to return to the meaning-making myth of RDOS's theory and describe how it could plausibly be re… ===
Not right now, I'd like to return to the meaning-making myth of RDOS's theory and describe how it could plausibly be rescued.

If it were true that Neanderthals had a culture similar to autism communities, then autism communities could reasonably describe themselves as the spiritual descendants of Neanderthals, if not the genetic descendants (in the sense of having more Neanderthal variants). As you mentioned, the interpretation of the archeological evidence to behavior predictions is extremely indirect, so it would be most correct to say we have a very poor idea of Neanderthal culture. Both the support for this idea and the criticisms of it are on equally speculative ground for lack of hard evidence, and the only way we can judge between them is by assessing their competence in reasoning.