In autism, the social benefits of being a girl

[SheilaT]

1. Interesting.

I am the mother of a young man on the spectrum, Asperger's, and because he was my first child I simply did not understand to what a huge extent he simply did not tune into others.

When my second son was born, I misinterpreted his actually normal behavior, as hyper social. Had they been born in the reverse order, I would have understood very early on that the autistic son really was very different.

Meanwhile, he's a success story. Just got his bachelor's degree in physics, as the age of 33, and has applications in for grad school. I think he will go a long way.