Older fathers more likely to have autistic children

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06 Oct 2006, 6:06 pm

This issue may be an interesting statistical phoenominon. Aspies and auties tend to not have particularly good social skills, so they end up getting married and having children later in life. Since they carry the genes for autism, they end up passing this to their children. When it comes to NT's, they end up getting married earlier in life, and having NT kids. It's not that autism is caused by being caused by having children late in life, it's that the numbers are a parallel.