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This is confusing because a lot of autistic people are married and a lot of autistic people have good education and high paying jobs like Temple Grandin and others.

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She didn't say that at all. In the younger group , who did show a separate pattern of cognition than NTs, there were people who were very high functioning , were grad students, lived independently and worked. There was just one group of middle aged ASD ppl who were married and had high-paying jobs and they scored like the NTs on the measures of cognition. It could be due to adaptation over time since they're older OR could be due to misdiagnosis. She is unsure and has to do more research.

I didn't say that people who are married, have kids, and have jobs can't be autistic. I said that this group of people have not shown significant differences on most obvious measures in eggsperiments that have been done so far, but have shown differences in non-obvious measures and may show differences in future eggsperiments that are more sensitive to autistic brain/cognition/behavior and less affected by adaptation over time.

I don't know what me having a job or how much it pays and how much I like it has much to do with what I am talking about.

I find the identification of autistic subgroups extremely fascinating.

Well it's not just you, but the idea is pervasive on this forum.

However, you are using those benchmarks (is that the right word), for your testing criteria. You are sorting them by that criteria, not by whether they have special interests or sensory difficulties. Or is it just that you are taking a large sample and finding that among those that are married or have jobs some have non obvious difficulties?

What are some of the non obvious problems that they are having?

I'm very confused about why you are asking me why the fact that you have a job matters when you are talking about results of people who have jobs. I was just relating you to that group.

The research is not about being married, having kids, or having jobs. I am not using these things as criteria for anything, or pre-sorting into groups based on these things. The only criteria for participation in these research projects is official diagnosis of an ASD and adulthood age. (Anyone from WP who wants to participate and lives in LA area, please PM me) The research eggsperiment is a computerized activity on which a group of autistic people show clear differences from NT group and another group of autistic people don't, and this group happens to be older and have good outcome. This is not unique finding, as other studies have found that autistic people with optimal outcome don't show differences from NTs on certain measures.

My having a job has nothing to do with what I am talking about. I was the first research subject in my study, before I became the researcher, and I was in the difference group, like some of the other people in that group who are closer to my age and have college degrees and jobs.

That makes sense.

It is curious that discussion of it is in a thread about people going to elaborate lengths to deceive diagnosticians and deliberately obtain a misdiagnosis.

I still tend to think that that has to be an extremely rare, fringe behavior like Munchausen's.

But it does make sense to me that people who can hold down a job are processing things differently than people who can't.

My boss was diagnosed with Aspergers and ADHD and she kept dropping hints and I was too oblivious to get them. She explained to me that when I am deeply mentally involved in my work I rock in my chair or raise my hands while rapidly rubbing my first and second fingers. There was a lot of other stuff. I suspect that whatever subtype I fit in is also one that she fits in.

I am certain it is a type of autism, but I won't be surprised if it gets testable as a specific subtype and gets a new name. Maybe "Aspergers syndrome?"

Just a little joke, there.

There is an electric shock machine in lab.

Yes. The human brain is amazing.

People are often able to identify differences quickly in some of us married and employed people with ASD, but finding tests that pick up what the human mind can sort is apparently, if I understand correctly, quite difficult.

Do you know why I am talking about my research in this thread? Because I have to talk about my research somewhere, because I have to activate the language functions of my brain to be able to write the technical and lay abstracts for another research project, and so far, I wrote the technical abstract, but now I have to write the lay abstract still, then the data-sharing plan, whatever that is, all this writing requires activating the language functions which are not easily activated, and also posting in this thread allows me to procrastinate some writing, so that is good, why is procrastination so enjoyable?