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04 Jul 2011, 8:22 pm

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/fraternal-tw ... 38403.html -- just saw this on the news page, thought it might be of interest on WP :wtg:


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04 Jul 2011, 9:35 pm

Just because of the high fraternal twin ratio, the identical twin ratio is even higher by double...which is also how AS families seem to pan out....2 out of 3 kids in an ASD family (from my experience) has ASD...there seems to always have that one NT kid and a houseful of aspies and auties.

I think it has more to do with gentics


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04 Jul 2011, 10:19 pm

(actually, I do too) so the odds may seem remote that both kids would be autie, but that does not mean it's impossible. Just like they could statistically both have.... oh, say, curly hair ... or something


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06 Jul 2011, 5:40 pm

That's interesting.


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