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Re:The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful... by Terretta on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:49AM (#29995156)
> Intellectual functioning is one of the most heterogeneous aspects of autism (Maenner, 2020). In the APP, we identified subgroups based on the trajectory of intellectual functioning across early childhood (Times 1–3) (Solomon et al., 2018). Four distinct trajectories were identified: two groups, comprising 26 and 18% of the sample, respectively, had IQs in the intellectual disability range at both time points; a third group (22%) had IQs in the normal range at both time points. Of particular interest, a fourth group, comprising 35% of the cohort, initially had IQs in the intellectual disability range but made significant gains (34 points) to have IQs in the normal range by age 6–7.

Are there none with above normal IQ? For your purposes, does above normal IQ rule out "autism" by definition, as in, such will never be included in any groupings?

Given debate whether Asperger syndrome is a thing, and what seems to be emerging consensus Asperger's should be collapsed into autism spectrum^H^H^H diversity, what grouping contains those with well above normal language expression and intelligence?

I imagine such grouping to be of interest to this HN community:

"In the social world, there is no great benefit to a precise eye for detail, but in the worlds of maths, computing, cataloging, music, linguistics, engineering, and science, such an eye for detail can lead to success rather than failure."

https://web.archive.org/web/20081217140628/http://autismrese...

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"JPMorgan Chase’s Autism at Work program has helped the company fill a talent gap in its software engineering and quality assurance departments. When the program first started in 2015, a cohort of five employees on the spectrum were hired. Within the first six months, those employees were 48% more productive than employees not on the spectrum who had been at the same job three to ten years."

https://www.benefitnews.com/news/jpmorgan-chases-autism-at-w...

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Re:The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful... by SubiculumCode on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:18AM (#29995635)
Yes, we do have above average IQs in the sample with autism that is not Asperger's. Intellectual disability is a co-occuring condition that is not a criterion for autism.
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