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KenG
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28 Nov 2010, 9:30 am

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28 Nov 2010, 10:38 am

I never trust this man. He always seems to be mostly about putting a pleasant face on sexism and eugenics.

This whole "male-brain" idea seems to be really debunked by research that indicates that girls with autism are less likely to be identified than boys, even when they show more signs of it. To me, this means that the gender imbalance in diagnosis has its most probably base in sexism, not in autism being an extreme version of male development. His theory has the advantages of being easy to understand and based on bigotry, so people like it.


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28 Nov 2010, 10:46 am

Sexism and eugenetics are alive and well, and that really ticks me off.


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28 Nov 2010, 11:11 am

Ah, I remember this guy, he did a Foreword on the book Born On A Blue Day by Daniel Tammet. Very good book by the way.



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28 Nov 2010, 1:29 pm

I'm not sure that I understand all the 'male brain, female brain' kind of theory that he puts out. I'm pretty sure that there are men that can empathize, and women that can systemize.



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04 Dec 2010, 4:22 am

Vector wrote:
I never trust this man.

Keep in mind his cousin played Borat, Bruno, and Ali G and in the Bruno movie Sacha mocked autism as the new "in" disease.