Neuro-Humans From Planet Autisma

What if autistics didn’t just “feel” like they were an alien, but they actually are an alien?

Linda Maria Ruiz de Zarate Smith
ArtfullyAutistic
5 min readJul 1, 2022

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What if autistics didn’t just “feel” like they are an alien, but actually are alien?

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Disclaimer: I want to be clear from the start that I am not regarding autistic people as aliens. I believe them to be a very meaningful group of “neuro-humans” and am pleased that more awareness is being created for autistic people to live more comfortably and openly among those who are not autistic. This is a fictional story, a theory of mine that I wanted to write about.

I am neurodivergent, which means I have a brain that is wired differently. I was diagnosed at the age of 57 with ADHD but I suspect that I am also autistic; I have an official assessment scheduled for October 2022. When I found out I was neurodivergent, I came up with the term Neuro-Human, which suggests a neurologically different class of humans. I have always struggled in school, in social situations, and in understanding other humans. I have always believed that I was an alien from another planet growing up, and I always looked up to the sky wondering where I really came from; I knew I didn’t belong here.

Temple Grandin, an extraordinarily able autist, said, “Much of the time I feel like an anthropologist on Mars.” She felt that interactions with other people were often as difficult as interviewing Martians. (A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES, 2009, Ian Hacking “Humans, Aliens and Autism”) https://www.amacad.org/publication/humans-aliens-autism

Painting by Richard Smith ufoteacher.com — printed with permission from Artist

My husband and I are UFO experiencers and researchers since the mid-nineties. We have written books about our experiences and have spoken publicly about them as well. We are not conspiracy theorists but we do have a different view on most things. This is our website if you are interested in learning more about us.

I have done extensive research on Autism and ADHD since my diagnosis and have started wondering if there is something more to being neurodivergent. What if autistic/neurodivergent people are actually from another planet, a planet that may have been destroyed and their population needed a similar planet to live on? I will call this planet — Planet Autisma. In this fictional hypothesis, this may explain why there are neurological differences between autists/neurodivergents and Earth-humans.

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Imagine planet Autisma’s core, which sustained its magnetic field, is cooling down. This would leave the planet vulnerable to solar wind, clawing away the atmosphere and allowing the planet’s water to sputter into space. Before long — in geological terms — the planet becomes a desert. Autisma was doomed from the start. Its small size — about half the diameter of Earth and less than one-ninth the mass — simply never produced the gravitational muscle to allow the planet to hold onto either its atmosphere or its water. With or without a magnetic field, Autisma was destined to die. One would think that the inhabitants had time to notice what is happening in enough time for them to find a suitable planet to live on.

The inhabitants of Autisma might travel through deep space, hopping from planet to planet, until they finally stumbled upon Earth one billion years ago, a planet rich with water and minerals with no pollution or outside threats. The former inhabitants of Autisma would have adapted to living on a planet with more gravity, meeting Earth-humans and creating a relationship with them. Eventually, they would mate with Earth-humans thus creating the spectrum of autism currently found on Earth today. However, there might be some genetic mutations caused by interbreeding with the humans of Earth, one of which could serve as the root cause of emotional dysregulation found within the neuro-human population today.

Neuro-humans generally are more emotionally and intellectually sensitive than Earth-humans, causing them to react more intensely to sounds, tastes, smells, etc. Thus, neuro-humans have been inadequately assessed for their intellectual abilities. Neuro-human communication is different and Earth-humans see this as a disorder or deficit that requires remediation or a cure. Neuro-humans have neurological and developmental differences that affect how they interact, communicate, learn, and behave with others. Neuro-humans do not need a cure or treatments that will make them communicate, learn, or behave according to what Earth-humans consider the social norms.

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We, Neuro-humans, are different — not defective — and we don’t look any different than Earth-humans. Consider the possibility that we are the descendants of beings from a far away galaxy who have had to adapt to this planet. In this scenario, we are hybrids who have been known throughout time as Starseeds. Some say that these Hybrid Children are a part of a Human/E.T. Hybridization Program where abductees are taken aboard ships to interact with, in some cases, “their children”. It may be possible that some of the original inhabitants from Autisma are still out in space making sure that their “children” are safe. In this scenario, the original colony that came from Autisma represents the link to any future extraterrestrial contact, the ones who will be responsible for a peaceful, open discussion with our otherworldly visitors. After all, our current United States government has admitted that they have been tracking “UFOs” for quite some time.

Top Pentagon officials told a House panel in 2022 that there are now close to 400 reports from military personnel of possible encounters with UFOs — a significant increase from the 144 tracked in a major report released last year by the U.S. intelligence community. (2022 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-reports-400-ufo-encounters-tells-congress-theyre-investigating-video/story?id=84753756)

All I know is that we all seek belonging, alignment, or kinship with a person, family, group, culture, or society. Both Neuro-humans and Earth-humans crave acceptance and connection.

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Linda Maria Ruiz de Zarate Smith
ArtfullyAutistic

Writer, Editor, speaker, and self-advocate on Neurodivergence. COO of 11:22 Creative Design LLC.