My guess would be much simpler: older parents == worse genes. It is already proved that some disorders happen more often to children of parent aged 35+ (Down syndrome for instance)
Or older parents == better circumstances for kid, and better chances for kid with autism to be successful.
Re:Systemisers are better at maths
by s-shellfish on Saturday August 04, 2018 @02:21PM
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Ability to create stable mental framework.
Re:Systemisers are better at maths
by SamReidHughes on Saturday August 04, 2018 @02:35PM
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Yep, this is the most prominent theory for why older fathers, particularly, are correlated with autism.
It's not just autism, a whole range of disorders.
That's a comforting thing.
IT systems are just systems that are predictable within some range of expected behavior without extreme variation, or if there is extreme variation, it's fun (usually).