Quote: (11-11-2012 10:52 PM)Black Knight Wrote:
Quote: (11-11-2012 09:07 PM)cardguy Wrote:
I am not sure why most autistics are male.
Autism has been linked to high levels of prenatal testosterone and is often referred to as hyper-masculinization of the brain, which makes sense given a lot of the behaviors typical of autistic spectrum disorders.
This guy has published a lot of research on the testosterone/autism connection, and also happens to be Borat's cousin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen
Yep. I used to teach a few autistic kids. One of them, if we allowed him to, would make towers by stacking colored blocks. The color scheme ALWAYS had to be exactly the same: red, green, blue and yellow. He was obsessed with this order; this simple logic system, if you will.
That's what autistics are like, especially Aspies: they love codes and systems. Aspies especially are coldly logical people who lack emotions such as empathy.