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As the father of two sons with diagnoses of ASD, I think that it is best to think in terms of an extended spectrum which encompasses 'normal' people. We are all somewhere on this spectrum, but there is a threshold zone around where we cross from "normal" to "diagnosable as ASD". Now, if the distribution of spectral position for males is displaced towards the ...
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Males are more likely to develop ASD, but affected females tend to be more severely impaired. Why this occurs is an area of active research.
However, to address your question, there is a study suggesting that mutations on the X-chromosome account for about 1% of ASD and intellectual disability cases. This clearly doesn't explain everything, but it's a ...
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This question is difficult to answer and in the end, we'll just have to accept that we don't really know (at least for now). My own understanding is that what we call our consciousness is an emergent phenomenon, arising from the extraordinarily complex network of billions of neurons interacting with each other within the brain. Perhaps the rest of the cells ...
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