Autism is a strange condition.
Sometimes its symptoms of “social blindness” (an inability to read or comprehend the emotions of others) occur alone. This is dubbed high-functioning autism, or Asperger’s syndrome.
Though their fellow men and women may regard them as a bit odd, high-functioning autists are often successful members of society. On other occasions, though, autism manifests as part of a range of cognitive problems. What is common to those on all parts of the so-called autistic spectrum is that they are more often men than women—so much more often that one school of thought suggests autism is an extreme manifestation of what it means, mentally, to be male. Boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls are.
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