Pretty sure there is good evidence that autism is an extreme male brain. Ol Sasha Baron Cohen's cousin is a pretty famous psychologist who has done work on it

I wish we had a "this tbh" reaction for agreement

Autistic people, even girls, tend to have hyper masculine facial features

But pointing works

Check out @deltoscano’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/deltoscano/status/1098361884913385477?s=09

Aspergers is basically an inability to handle your emotions

@Andrew-KY I've actually heard that it has to do with too much testosterone which is why it's predominantly diagnosed in males.

I'm not sure if that's true though

Introversion is actually heightened sensitivity. At far end you have screeching at noise. As an introvert put me in a party and overstimulate me and i understand the need to screech loudly.

“I feel slightly sad, I’m going to completely overreact”

@ophiuchus oh shit Courtney?

also, a lot of people don't understand what correlations are

Too much testosterone would cause both a hyper masculine brain and facial features @Jordan - MD

Wew

I knew an autistic with a pituitary problem so he was like six foot eight

My aunt had two children- one non-verbal autistic child who’s in a group home, one aspergers kid who gets autism bucks

>I cant tell my feelings apart so i only experience one
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So, some people take the myth to the other extreme. Just because autism correlates with low IQ doesn't mean *all* autistic people are dumb. There was this guy at work who I called autistic, and my manager and a shift leader were like, "he's actually really smart". Like, okay, but I didn't say he was dumb, I said he was autistic.

My only emotion is 🇫

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And, no, I didn't say it to his face, it was in private. I genuinely think the guy was on the spectrum, I wasn't just being a dick.

I’m pretty sure the invention of the hyperlink made everyone under 30 have terminal ADHD

Autism is correlated with high intelligence

I believe you’re thinking of Down syndrome

“What about this” x 9000000000

No, that's a myth, autism is correlated with low intelligence

let me look it up

NAXALT

Yeah downs syndrome is definitely not correlated with high intelligence lol

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Asperger's high iq, autism low

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21272389

Asperger's is no longer considered autism

yep it correlates with low IQ

Down’s syndrome is completely different. There are serious physiologic changes with downs.

They don’t live to be very old

I had no idea that Asperger's was divorced from autism

Do autists live to be old? I heard that IQ actually correlates with lifespan.

Theyre just buckets of symptoms that show up together. They have no underlying causal theory

The latest DSM tightened up the reqs for autism diagnosis, so aspies aren't autists officially