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16 Jan 2016, 12:56 am

The Mysterious Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Abilities - The Atlantic


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16 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm

and?



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17 Jan 2016, 2:08 am

Time and effort do not get spent finding out and helping the majority of autistics who are not savants or severe. You can read posts here everyday about members bieng told they are not autistic and not bieng disgnosed as autistic because they don't present similar to rain man or Sheldon


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17 Jan 2016, 4:15 am

Thanks for sharing, i'm impressed.



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17 Jan 2016, 4:48 am

Correlation ≠ Causation


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17 Jan 2016, 4:59 am

PainfulPleasure wrote:
Correlation ≠ Causation


:lol: :lol: :lol:
If one day i am married and my husband brings me a lot of margarine, i will be worried...



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17 Jan 2016, 5:07 am

PainfulPleasure wrote:
Correlation ≠ Causation


There are also talented people who are not on the AS. We know it .
Particularly great talents is a caracteristic of Autism.

The correlation makes much more sense than the correlation between divorce and margarine :lol: :lol: :lol:



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19 Jan 2016, 1:03 am

I was surprised at the assertion that 1/3 of autistics (in one study) or 1/10 (in another study) have splinter skills or something like savantism. It seems like a very extreme assertion, which could be greatly skewed by bias sampling or varying definitions of what a splinter skill IS. I have perfect pitch and am a really fast, accurate proofreader, but neither could be called savantism by anybody, and I can't play an instrument at all.

I thought they did make a good point about IQ tests not being a good measure for autistic people. I get a wide point spread on different tests: Wechsler 108, Stanford-Binet 132, Raven Standard Progressive Matrices 153.


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