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Re:Autism and gender imbalance in tech by sudosteph on Sunday August 06, 2017 @07:37PM (#14944344)
Is there a scientific basis for that statement?

Sure some of the symptoms seem opposite (but others are actually kind of similar), but the genetic component of that disease is pretty specific and well understood. Not like autism which has been much harder to pin down on any single chromosome.

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Re:Autism and gender imbalance in tech by wlesieutre on Sunday August 06, 2017 @09:42PM (#14944741)
If what we're talking about is the societal impact of people's behavior, does the genetic basis matter?

Maybe AnthonyMouse could've been more precise and said "personal behavior opposite of behaviors characteristic of people on the autism spectrum", but that's awfully wordy and pretty clearly what he was getting at.

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