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Sir Simon Baron-Cohen

Desperately Seeking Wisdom

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The Connection Between Autism and Human Intervention

For thousands of years we've basically looked at autistic people as just strange or incapable. This book tries to draw out the connection between autism and human intervention. One example is that if you look at people who work in STEM, science, technology, engineering or mathematics, it turns out they have a higher number of autistic traits.

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