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by rapjr9 168 days ago
“We have found this really important, never-before-understood difference in autism that is meaningful, has implications for intervention, and can help us understand autism in a more concrete way than we ever have before,”

So we might be able to make all the non-autistic people autistic? What would the world be like if everyone was mildly autistic?

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That quote is over the top. Given the imbalance between groups it is also embarrassing to read.
Which autism? There are four: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.15.24312078v...

My impression is this article and research that generalizes across the entire spectrum is not very useful.