Autism May Be the Price of Human Intelligence
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A new study suggests that autism may be linked to human intelligence, sparking discussion on the potential trade-offs between cognitive abilities and neurodiversity; commenters cautiously consider the implications of this research.
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I lived at a boarding school for boys with high functioning autism (with a strict 100+ IQ requirement), and even then, almost no one could understand the school's simplified math curriculum. Most autistic people have it worse than that.