Are male autistics smarter than females?

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Or are they just diagnosing autism more in males?

Smartness is not part of the diagnostic criteria at all. If anything smart autistics are being underdiagnosed because they can present as eccentric not disabled.

Undefined. But I'd say it is irrelevant.

Unless going a bit way back, when females would usually be diagnosed if they're particularly more severe or has specific chromosomal abnormalities that came out of it.

The rest are either deemed rare, undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.


There are different areas of intelligence.
There are also different areas of adaptability and functioning.

I'd rather question what are the respective sex's and gender's inclination and "focus" than aptitudes alone.

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Even without the autistic bit added to it it's a complex and controversial area of research. What I have read more than a few times is that males are more likely to be at the extreme low and high ends of intelligence. The problem is that can be used by very misogynistic males against females. I can't provide info for it,it's very much an IMO thing, but I would argue that females are better at using what intelligence they've got. Whether the research on the general population applies re males and females on the spectrum I have absolutely no idea.

One thing is what my Mother says and I actually agree with her in this is that males and females are different, and part of the issues in the past (E.g. the 1970's when I grew up where they "Tried" to get men and women to be the same) is that it simply did not work.

This is a bunch of nonsense, autism has nothing to do with how smart you are.

Also, intelligence is not determined by sex or gender.

Generally, yes. It doesn't mean Aspie females are dumb though, it just means that Aspie females are more likely to have an average IQ. Check out possible Aspies like Bill Gates for example. .

That's a bit of a logic leap. Wanting more opportunities & not to be auto-locked-out of positions, equates to neither sacrificing men nor all-women-only workforces.

There should be no discomfort in a man choosing to go into nursing, teaching, childcare, etc. or a woman choosing engineering, crime-fighting, etc.

To the original topic, one could argue that women/girls/females having lower diagnostic rates might indicate higher intelligence in their abilities to adapt better. Higher social iq would just be different, not lesser.