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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3720085, member: 96864&quot;]I&#039;ve never thought about looking for coins on Facebook but oughta give it a shot. I joined when it was just for college students in &#039;05 and basically abandoned it in disgust when all my favorite pages were banned for Wrongthink (I.e. actually being incisive and humorous) 3 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t been around long enough to offer any reliable concrete predictions, but aside from the promising increase in exposure and thus interest in non-western countries, I&#039;m quite certain that the genetic predisposition to collect (hoard resources) will exist until our species goes extinct.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was a very inquisitive natural born collector, starting my coin and a half dozen other collecting interests at 5, and was entirely uninterested in television, video games and other frivolous activities which paled in comparison to the enthralling historical or geological effervescence of &quot;old&quot; things. I didn&#039;t <i>choose</i> to collect things or to be interested in their context or stories, it was an instinct as natural as water flowing downhill.</p><p><br /></p><p>Being a &quot;little professor&quot; much more comfortable playing with my collections or picking the brains of knowledgeable adults than playing with my perplexingly simple peers is an obvious facet of the magnificent Autism Spectrum, and I&#039;d bet everything I own that you glorious Autists are concentrated in the hobby to a remarkably greater degree than you are in the average population distribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>This brings me to the point; Autism Spectrum &quot;disorder&quot; (lol) is being diagnosed at ever increasing rates, and regardless of the reasons (merely more comprehensive patient evaluations, toxins in foods and environment before and after birth, older women waiting until their eggs are overripe to have children, etc.) the fact is that the beautiful Spectrum is here to stay, so as long as interesting things still exist there will be people who naturally gravitate towards them. Many other acquisitive hobbies involve items that are more contrived and 2-dimensional, produced for the primary purpose of being collected. Such inauthentic and superficial realms won&#039;t last and certainly won&#039;t satisfy the self-respecting Autist, so there will always be some who dig deep and find ancient coins to be a pursuit quite superior to collecting anime figurines and waifu plushies. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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