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by IAmBroom 191 days ago
Ironically very accurate for an en vogue theory of how autism occurs.

Babies are born with many more neural connections than most adults have. The learning process appears to include a "winnowing" process. OTOH, autistic individuals appear to have a larger number of neural connections, which suggests that they did in fact "not converge" (or not weed out excessive connections that distract from more productive decision-making).

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ironic how?