The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.
Temple GrandinChildren between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.
Temple GrandinThere tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
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