Thank you sincerely for this info. Not only had I neglected to even think of "neuroplasticity" but you've made me realise that I've been thinking about autism in an outdated context based largely on what my mother was told when I was diagnosed as a child (and what filtered down to me).
I might well have been trying to argue quantum mechanics using Rutherford's model of the atom and not knowing any better (which is not that far from my knowledge of physics either unfortunately).
Now I know how my catching up I have to do I'm a bit daunted, but at least now I know, Thankyou
