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Research reveals autistic individuals are in fact superior in multiple areas
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<blockquote data-quote="Marg's Man" data-source="post: 477961" data-attributes="member: 4085"><p>Hear Hear,</p><p>I have often said to Marg that I believe autism must have some benefits otherwise they would never survive long enough to breed. Simple evolution would remove them from the gene pool.</p><p></p><p>We've all seen stories of so-called 'savant' abilities of autistics. I often see autistic traits in my colleagues at work (I work at one of the world's major universities). These people are not (always) autistic but they DO exhibit the extreme focus on single or limited ranges of topics. Heck! Who but someone who inclines towards autism would focus on the extremely abstruse mathematics that describes the sub-atomic behaviour of the interatomic bond of the Hydrogen atom <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/groooansmileyf.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":groan:" title="groan :groan:" data-shortname=":groan:" />. Does your head hurt - mine does!</p><p></p><p>Autistics can be loyal, single minded and a squillion other good things we are all aware of. </p><p></p><p>It ain't all bad although we could be forgiven for forgetting it sometimes.</p><p></p><p>Marg's Man</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marg's Man, post: 477961, member: 4085"] Hear Hear, I have often said to Marg that I believe autism must have some benefits otherwise they would never survive long enough to breed. Simple evolution would remove them from the gene pool. We've all seen stories of so-called 'savant' abilities of autistics. I often see autistic traits in my colleagues at work (I work at one of the world's major universities). These people are not (always) autistic but they DO exhibit the extreme focus on single or limited ranges of topics. Heck! Who but someone who inclines towards autism would focus on the extremely abstruse mathematics that describes the sub-atomic behaviour of the interatomic bond of the Hydrogen atom :groooansmileyf:. Does your head hurt - mine does! Autistics can be loyal, single minded and a squillion other good things we are all aware of. It ain't all bad although we could be forgiven for forgetting it sometimes. Marg's Man [/QUOTE]
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