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Asperger's/PDD

mapol

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2. This is not necessarily the case, KamaAina.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2019, 03:43 PM

Sep 2019

As a matter of fact, many females (though not all) are less intelligent than many autistic males. When it occurs in girls, it's often more severe, as well.

Yet, being female, while it won't necessarily protect her from autism per se, might protect her from being intellectually disabled and/or having other comorbid disorders along with it.

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This is not necessarily the case, KamaAina. mapol Sep 2019 #2